State Parks: Meeting Expectations

Interesting story in Monday's USA Today about state parks battling hotels and conference centers for business from company meetings. Evidently, state parks are offering facilities "from a one-room schoolhouse at Utah's Camp Floyd/Stagecoach Inn State Park to mansions and full-service lodges like the one at Alabama's Lake Guntersville State Park" to attract meeting-goers.

The main selling points the state park facilities have going for them, the article continues, include affordability, usually breathtaking surroundings, and seclusion from the noise of daily life (read: no cellphones, pagers, and so forth).

Check out the full story online.