BLM access about to be lost
There is a fantastic BLM dispersed camping site in Colorado on the Arkansas River that is in danger of being converted from free BLM camping to an expensive, reservation only campground run by the sta...
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4runnerguy wrote:
To me this is why Salida East should be kept as a dispersed camping spot. There's already a pit toilet there, so one shouldn't find TP and waste laying around. If this area is converted to a pay CG, those boondockers will go elsewhere and there probably won't be toilet facilities there. Hence, more waste and trash in an entirely different area.
You have nailed it. The chief complaint against the site is the very few slobs who leave trash and the few who do not know there are toilets at the boat ramp a few hundred yards away. (because there are no signs to the toilets-- simple solution).
People who do not think very far ahead assume making it a pay site will solve the problem- in fact it will drive campers to one BLM site across the river which is less accessible and to other BLM sites around Salida not on the river and to the Walmart parking lot--- none of these sites have toilets - the results are obvious.
Rob
