BC Parks Reservation System
Obviously this isn't working. What do other provinces/States do that does work? http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/bc-campers-face-a-sold-out-summer-as-p...
Forum Discussion
jimbob3ca wrote:
There is also a problem with British Columbia's forest service recreation sites. In the East Kootenay's, I often go out to use one of the sites that is near where I want to fish. I arrive on a Monday and find trailers or tents set up and nobody there, and nobody is there all week. I have even come a second time up to two or three weeks later, and the same trailer/trailers are still there. Some people treat these sites as their own private recreational property. Problem is partly due to cutbacks so that forest service staff cannot police this because of a lack of staff.
Yes, We've experienced that also. We actually got to a BCFS campground (on Vancouver Island) when they were in the process of distributing all of their pup tents to each individual site. When i asked him wtf he was doing, he got his rifle out of his truck & said they had all the sites & to take off! We then went down the hill to another forestry site (with an attendant) & told the attendant about this. He said he would pass on the info to authorities. We didn't stick around to see what, if anything, happened.
Years ago, before the reservation system came to be, people were doing similar things in the Provincial Parks (setting up & leaving, just to claim a spot). The reservation system was supposed to fix that.
