2023-09-25, 07:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-09-25, 07:18 PM by Beardilocks.)
Definitely not happy about this. I kind of don’t care what they charge for the campgrounds, but I’m drawing the line at charging for hiking permits and starting to charge for back country camping permits.
Somewhere along the lines they added Greenwater Valley Rd to the list of back country camping areas that require a permit. Personally I feel like that’s out of bounds. I would now expect that Trail Canyon will follow next year along with regs banning camping pretty much anywhere you don’t currently need a permit to camp.
I fully understand the need to keep the yahoos in check but where do we draw the line?
I’m also a bit annoyed at the disingenuous claim that the park gets much money from these hikes. Most of it goes to independent vendors that run a chunk of the campgrounds or to Recreate.gov with exorbitant fees added to every transaction.
Somewhere along the lines they added Greenwater Valley Rd to the list of back country camping areas that require a permit. Personally I feel like that’s out of bounds. I would now expect that Trail Canyon will follow next year along with regs banning camping pretty much anywhere you don’t currently need a permit to camp.
I fully understand the need to keep the yahoos in check but where do we draw the line?
I’m also a bit annoyed at the disingenuous claim that the park gets much money from these hikes. Most of it goes to independent vendors that run a chunk of the campgrounds or to Recreate.gov with exorbitant fees added to every transaction.
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