SideHillSoup wrote:
My 2bits
I noticed two of the campgrounds around here had power added last year.
One campgound put the few elec sites in the parking lot ( paved parking lot) of the public beach and added 3' high x 12 ' long rail fences between the sites.
The other campgound built the new sites in a field on the way into the campgound, on a dirt road, but they did plant a few small trees which will grow in 20 years to add shade.
As for new sites:
The Govt says 1900 new campsites, but only 800 are in " campgrounds" the other 1100 are in backcountry Rec Sites, which in a lot of the cases around here are up dirt roads ( usually old logging roads) or in some cases boat access only sites, meaning your not driving your RV to that rec site. I bet there are a lot of people that wouldn't be dragging there shiny truck and trailer up a dirt road 14km to get to a rec site only to find the place is already full, but there are a lot of people that love the back country camping, so for them this is a good thing.
The biggest issue I see is where they add these new 1100 rec sites and how they manage them. Some of the rec sites have a daily attendant taking money etc, however a lot of the out of the way place are not managed by attendants on a daily / regular basics.
You will sometimes see TV coverage when damage and garbage is left after a huge party at a rec site down around the lower mainland, however up here those same big parties with all the damage and garbage don't make the news and we ( the locals) that usually happen on these places after get stuck cleaning them up.
I hope that these extra rangers they talk about are going to be patrolling and managing the rec sites better and "WAY" more often than they do now.
Bigger the better or more of something is not always a good thing, ( unless we are talking chocolate cake.... grin) ...time will tell.
Soup
X2!
That's the thing with Rec sites, You are always taking a gamble that it will be open after all that driving down some pretty rough roads. Then, we have had excellent spots and were crashed by partyers! We had to put up with them in the middle of nowhere! Some peoples kids eh! I try and get even by throwing bread crumbs on their roof early in the morning when they are still passed out. The crows don't seem to mind!
