Dislike of 'Reservation Only' camping
Hi All, Love camping, usually take one big trip for about 2 weeks every year. It's becoming tough to find places to camp where you can just show up. I don't like making reservations, in my opinio...
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The state of Minnesota just this month converted ALL of their state park campsites to the reservation system. Before, they had about 60% reservable and 40% FCFS.
The problem isn't so much finding an open site (on non-weekends) it is finding and being able to STAY on a site. On a FCFS site, we could make a decision to stay as long as we liked. If the weather was good and the park was interesting, we could re-up for a day at a time, or for several days up to the 14 day max. Now with all the sites reservable, the opportunity to stay on the site is limited because you can almost bet that it will be already reserved by Thursday or the very latest Friday of that week and through the weekend.
I completely understand about private campgrounds having all their sites reservable. But I firmly believe state parks should have at least some percentage of their sites on a FCFS basis.
The problem isn't so much finding an open site (on non-weekends) it is finding and being able to STAY on a site. On a FCFS site, we could make a decision to stay as long as we liked. If the weather was good and the park was interesting, we could re-up for a day at a time, or for several days up to the 14 day max. Now with all the sites reservable, the opportunity to stay on the site is limited because you can almost bet that it will be already reserved by Thursday or the very latest Friday of that week and through the weekend.
I completely understand about private campgrounds having all their sites reservable. But I firmly believe state parks should have at least some percentage of their sites on a FCFS basis.
