Arizona State Park camping fees
Wow! Doesn't look like I will be able to stay in State Parks in Arizona. At $30-$33 per night with no discounts available, I'll have to look elsewhere. Guess I'll have to stay in BLM and NF area...
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4x4dodger:: "...maintaining the web site and the servers, paying for CC clearance and on and on. By the time any state got a system up and running it would operate in the RED forever."
I agree with most of what you say sorta -- and believe in full transparancy, which we don't ever get - only the contract info, NOT the extras which always hide in the billings ...
But not this above -- the parks have personnel at the gatehouse, and have the site maps and the CC charging system in place. I just checked in for two days, just like a "today reservation" same amount of work, same rangers, same site map, same CC system. Each park CAN do a park, no one park can do a state. But it's already there, the infrastructure - it might need one more person to man the phone (but most can check in remote online) and for $9 per / and that huge cancel fee, one can easily hire one, or a volunteer to reserve ...
I'd much rather pay, let me say again, much rather pay a park host/reserve guy that fee than allow all that revenue to disappear -- LOCAL employment too, not thousands of miles distant with NO knowledge of sites or exact vacancy, nor can a remote site manipulate you into a couple sites that fill a need, instead of a rejection because you request overlaps site reservations in a PC with no adjustment allowed. That's why we see n-person vacancies when the PC says "Full", or "Can't meet your dates" ...
I agree with most of what you say sorta -- and believe in full transparancy, which we don't ever get - only the contract info, NOT the extras which always hide in the billings ...
But not this above -- the parks have personnel at the gatehouse, and have the site maps and the CC charging system in place. I just checked in for two days, just like a "today reservation" same amount of work, same rangers, same site map, same CC system. Each park CAN do a park, no one park can do a state. But it's already there, the infrastructure - it might need one more person to man the phone (but most can check in remote online) and for $9 per / and that huge cancel fee, one can easily hire one, or a volunteer to reserve ...
I'd much rather pay, let me say again, much rather pay a park host/reserve guy that fee than allow all that revenue to disappear -- LOCAL employment too, not thousands of miles distant with NO knowledge of sites or exact vacancy, nor can a remote site manipulate you into a couple sites that fill a need, instead of a rejection because you request overlaps site reservations in a PC with no adjustment allowed. That's why we see n-person vacancies when the PC says "Full", or "Can't meet your dates" ...
