Blue Dog RV has opened a new dealership on U.S. 2 East in Kalispell, Mont., and features a full-service RV repair shop.
This story by Bret Anne Serbin originally appeared in the Daily Inter Lake.
Blue Dog RV Parts and Service Director Pat Nagrone said the company is looking forward to adding Kalispell to the “Blue Dog family.”
The Kalispell store is the 16th Blue Dog dealership in the Western U.S. and the first in Montana. The company also recently opened its first East Coast location in Fleetwood, Pa.
“We’re always growing and expanding,” Nagrone said. The focus is on “helping people purchase their dream.”
Each Blue Dog RV store carries a different selection of products, but in Kalispell Nagrone said it will offer travel trailers, fifth wheels, toy haulers, and motorhomes, along with assorted parts and accessories. He elaborated the store will carry multiple different brands, including Forest River, Keystone and Thor, “as well as many other products.”
The business is opening in the former home of Pierce RV to bring back this option in an area popular for RVers and long-distance traveling visitors.
Nearly 12 years later, Nagrone said the ever-expanding company was considering “where the best fit for us would be” for its newest expansion, and “Kalispell reached out and grabbed us.”
Nagrone added that a lot of western Montana customers frequent the dealership’s Idaho locations, and he said the teams there used to be asked on a weekly basis when the company was going to expand into Montana.
Blue Dog RV is an especially good fit for the Flathead Valley and its surplus of outdoor activity options because the company offers full-service RV repair, Nagrone noted. The dealership plans on eventually adding a body shop at their Kalispell location as well.
