Staff photo by Fritz Busch Joe Lamecker of Joe’s Camper Sales stands in a new Rockwood 42-foot trailer with residential refrigerator, wide-screen television, extensive LED lighting and theater seating. It’s all part of Joe’s Camper Sales RV Show through Sunday at the New Ulm Civic Center.

If you go:

Who: Public

What: Joe’s Campers RV Show and other outdoor recreation dealers and organizations

Where: New Ulm Civic Center, 1212 N. Franklin St.

When: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday and Friday; 9 a.m to 6 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday

Admission: free. Sign up for door prizes.

NEW ULM — Outdoor recreation enthusiasts roamed the New Ulm Civic Center Wednesday night, as Joe’s Campers RV Show got underway.

“We’ve got 100 units out here, 70 inside, 30 outside. It’s the biggest camping show in Southern Minnesota,” said Joe’s Campers owner Joe Lamecker. “We get people for about 100 miles around from three states. Some people come here for three days. It’s the perfect time for people to come out and see everything. Lots of people don’t know what we have and what we do.”

Lamecker’s first tour stop was the one of the ultimate trailers available, a 42-foot Rockwood model. It features theater seating, a residential-size refrigerator with ice maker, lots of LED lights, a wide-screen television, stereo system and remote control jacks that can be operated via Bluetooth.

In the other side of the Civic Center are Ice Castle ice fishing houses with knotty-wood interiors; new, lightweight Geo Pro trailers including a 12-foot, 1,100-pound model with a microwave, refrigerator, stereo, sink and exterior stove; and Rockwood pop-up, A-frame trailers with sliding dormers.

“The new, lightweight trailers have no wind drag. They can be pulled with small SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles),” Lamecker said.

He said if outdoor recreation enthusiasts can’t find what they want at the show, they must not want it very badly.

Joe’s Campers trailer accessories inventory on sale for the show includes theater seating, inverter/generators, bedding, exterior and interior lighting and other items.

Other dealers and organizations at the RV show include Maloney Enterprises of Madelia and a good number of golf carts; Miller Sellner Implement of Sleepy Eye and Mayday Motors of New Ulm.

Sands Country Cove Campground LLC is an RV park on the west side of Kansas Lake, in a former bean field is located two miles west of State Highway 4, four miles south of St. James.

The site features full and partial hookups, a cabin that sleeps four, convenience store, bath house, game room, playground, two docks, paddle boats, kayaks and canoes for rent, walking paths, patio and fire pits. Several other lakes are nearby.

Fritz Busch can be e-mailed at fbusch@nujournal.com.