The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Campground

a summer camp for tourists traveling in automobiles. It has tents or cottages and parking places either by the tents or in a special area. Campgrounds are run on a self-service basis. Permanent installations usually include an administrative area with a center that rents everyday items, sleeping pavilions with rooms for two to four people, a kitchen, showers, lavatories, and areas for servicing and washing automobiles. A campground may also have a cafeteria, a laundry, areas for sports and dancing, a movie hall, a post office with telephone and telegraph facilities, and stores. In the USSR the size of a campground is based on 100–120 sq m for each tourist.

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About 1,300 people were at the campground, readying for a summer day of swimming pools, mini-golf, pier fishing and other activities at the 300-acre resort in rural Northampton County.

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James Foster, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wakefield, Virginia, said the storm was likely a tornado, and police are still searching for more injured people at the campground where 1,300 were staying.

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In fact, the shoreline right at the campground is one of the most productive spots in the lake.

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With decent gas prices, a good weather forecast and the sluggish economy forestalling trips to big-ticket resorts in far-flung locales, New Hampshire's campground owners are predicting a business to rise 10 percent this summer over 2009.

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Thanks to Roosevelt's experiences of utmost freedom, we have our national parks, and so nearly all of us now live within a few hours drive of a secluded campground that offers an ideal setting for fresh air, exercise, quiet observance of nature, and solitude.

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