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#1 DavidGraves

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Posted 25 September 2022 - 02:20 PM

Welcome to my world.....and this news article is ten years late in reporting it:

 

 

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#2 OutToLunch

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Posted 26 September 2022 - 04:38 AM

And people wonder why I prefer dogs to most humans.


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#3 craig333

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Posted 26 September 2022 - 03:01 PM

I'm glad I haven't had experienced that myself. I try and avoid big campgrounds but its not always feasible. 


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Posted 27 September 2022 - 08:28 PM

I think Ski/Julie had one of the best examples of this problem when they woke up to someone setting up camp in the campsite they were camping/sleeping in-they need to tell that one because it is a perfect example of what we are talking about (and it happened to me too :wacko: ).

 

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Posted 27 September 2022 - 08:53 PM

A few years ago Ted was camping at Kings Canyon NP and had a side paid for with the camp tag on the post.

They went out exploring and when they came back there were other people camped in their spot.

The other campers even moved Ted's gear that they left behind to show the site was taken.

 

It's sad these things happen.Don't know the solution to this though.

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#6 AWG_Pics

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Posted 28 September 2022 - 03:24 PM

Common decency is at times too uncommon. We avoid this by avoiding people if possible and if not we make a point to fully occupy our site as long as we want it. Has worked so far. No issues with difficult people on the trip we just returned from.


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Posted 28 September 2022 - 03:29 PM

Actually I took some of the information in the article as good news. The person interviewed reported it was now up to about 10% of visitors who had trouble following the rules. Honestly, based on what I see all around me in daily life, I would have thought it was up around 30%.

 

Last winter we stayed twice over on the north coast in Sonoma County campgrounds. There are no longer ANY first come first served sites or opening up sites from canceled reservations because of the fights that broke out over snagging available campsites. Now, you can get in only if you have a valid reservation.


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Posted 14 January 2023 - 03:10 AM

Actually I took some of the information in the article as good news. The person interviewed reported it was now up to about 10% of visitors who had trouble following the rules. Honestly, based on what I see all around me in daily life, I would have thought it was up around 30%.

 

Last winter we stayed twice over on the north coast in Sonoma County campgrounds. There are no longer ANY first come first served sites or opening up sites from canceled reservations because of the fights that broke out over snagging available campsites. Now, you can get in only if you have a valid reservation.

Ditto Oregon State campgrounds, at least on the coast and many Washington Stat3 campgrounds wher3 we would b3 able to snag a spot that wasn’t reserved. I do not like the reservation fees either. 


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Posted 14 January 2023 - 02:09 PM

We decided to get away from the fireworks on New Years and went to a near by Texas State Park that had good hiking trails and was far from a town. Cars were lined up and they were tuning folks back that did not have a reservation. Even for day use! As a recent article said “we are loving our parks to death”. 
The biggest problem I have is with the reservations is people now play the game of book it when you can and then cancel if you can’t go, taking up spots and pushing the timeline out even farther.


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#10 AWG_Pics

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Posted 14 January 2023 - 04:10 PM

I know this is a serious topic, but if you are open to the possibilities it is not too hard, out here in the empty lands, to find a place that will not likely ever be competed for. For example, I would be quite surprised if this reliable spot of ours is ever filled up, or even if anyone would ever go there at all: 38.55592, -117.2275

 

If people need infrastructure of any sort, then the competition and dumb behavior will always be there. It really boils down to avoiding popular places at popular times. On our most recent trip we thought about dropping into Goblin Valley State Park -- it was not surprisingly full up. However we drove on a bit to a lesser known BLM campground and of the thirty-odd sites only two others were occupied. This is the campground where we noted, on our walk around, two husky bearded young men in their late 20s or early 30s camped across from the upper pit toilet bathroom. Later, we observed with some surprise, the same two fellows DROVE about 100 yards to the lower bathroom which had flush toilets, presumably did their business, then drove back to their campsite. We had occasion to use both facilities while camped there and can't say the pit toilet was anything other than clean and well supplied.

 

Well, happy camping y'all. The reason you have a camper is to get away from the maddening crowds.


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