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There are nearly 400 parks across the country with year-round activities

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- You can't always measure a country's treasures by the size of its bank accounts. Sometimes a country's riches are better measured by the length of its rivers, the height of its mountains and its priceless historical places.

Our national parks were created to protect and showcase such treasures. With close t...

Killington Resort will host the only East Coast stop of the tour

KILLINGTON, Vt. (July 18, 2011) -Vermont's Killington Resort will be the host of the second stop of the 2011-12 Winter Dew Tour, the largest snow sports event in the East, following Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado and leading into the Dew Tour Championships at Snowbasin Resort in Utah. The four day event will showcase the world's top freeski and snowboard athletes competing i...

Shelburne, NH - It's time for runners and bicyclists to shift their training schedules into high gear! The twenty third annual Wildman Biathlon, one of the toughest multi-sport events in New England, is scheduled for Saturday, August 13th at 8:00 a.m., rain or shine.

Athletes from all over the United States, Canada and some years even other countries, come to New Hampshire's White Mountains to compete as an individual or in teams in the Wildm...

SPRUCE PEAK AT STOWE, VT - Hosted by Brett Hughes, Grand Ol' Honky Tonk at Spruce Peak is a monthly series of Wednesday night concerts in the new Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center. Honky Tonk is a unique brand of old-school country music played in little bars and roadhouses all around the country with guitars, fiddles, pedal steel and supporting singers who weave tales of good times and bad behavior to a rollicking back beat. The next Grand Ol' Honky Tonk...

From foot races to car races even, wife-carrying races, Sunday River's summer events calendar is full of excitement

Newry, Maine (July 7, 2011)-With Sunday River's many mountain activities including Zipline Tours and mountain biking now open for the summer, plus an events calendar that extends well into the fall, guests to the area will find plenty of reasons to race to the Western Mountains of Maine including the New England Forest Rally July...

KILLINGTON, Vt. (July 8, 2011) - Vermont's Killington Resort , the largest snow sports resort in the East with the most diverse terrain, continues to work on a number of summer capital projects to enhance the skier and rider experience for the 2011-12 season.

The removal of the Peak Lodge from Killington Peak, the most anticipated project, is under way and the tear down process is scheduled to begin in the next couple of weeks. In preparation ...

Bartlett, NH - Attitash Mountain Resort begins the 2nd annual Pin The Trail summer weekly downhill mountain biking race series this Wednesday, July 13. The series will run for six weeks and be a single run format downhill mountain bike race held every Wednesday at Attitash. Each week, a number plate draw determines the next week's course with the lucky winner playing the classic, blindfolded game of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" to make the choice. Racers w...

July 11, 2011 Highmount, NY - The "soundtrack of a generation" will spring to life when Creedence Clearwater Revisited plays the Belleayre Music Festival on Saturday, July 16 at 8 p.m. Stu Cook and Doug "Cosmo, " the original rhythm section of Creedence Clearwater Revival, will crank up classics like "Proud Mary," "Heard it Through the Grapevine," "Fortunate Son," "Who'll Stop the Rain" and a string of other hits that helped define an era. The Rock and Rol...

RANGELEY, ME -- Eleven of the top bands in bluegrass music, including some of Maine's best performers, will be coming to Rangeley, Friday and Saturday, August 12th and 13th for the 2nd Annual Saddleback Mountain Bluegrass Festival.

"This spectacular line up of talent represents the roots of bluegrass music right through to the most progressive artists in bluegrass today," stated Mark Robie, Saddleback Bluegrass Festival Manager.

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Halcottsville, NY - Alta Log Homes will host a "log-raising" event on Saturday, July 30 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in Halcottsville.

The log-raising will be the official start of a commercial building that Alta is constructing on a parcel about a half-mile south of the company's offices on Route 30. The day's festivities will include a complimentary barbecue and other refreshments.

The public is invited to stop by and obtain a firsthand v...