Empty parks with no open sites.
An article on a study done in Colorado concerning booked sites and no shows, as well as some potential issues with park personnel saving sites. rvtravel If the story is true, Colorado is changing s...
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ferndaleflyer wrote:
If I pay for it it should be mine for as long as I have paid for it even If I never show up. Just because you think it is empty and someone else has payed for it and isn't there yet don't mean you get the space
The problem is people have abused this in the past. State parks are notorious for filling up the first day a site is available for reservation.
What happens is reservations can be made starting 180 days out (for example). So 173days out, a scammer books 2 weeks never intending to use the 1st week. He now got a site before anyone else was able to book it. Yeah, it cost him a little extra but for a busy holiday week, he got the site.
Heck, 40yrs ago in Michigan (before the computer reservation systems), people would take the camper up the week before and then go home to effectively do the same thing...eventually, they cracked down by saying someone had to be staying in the camper.
Keep in mind public parks are not private businesses where profit is the only motivation. They are owned by the public, so providing access to that public is a core purpose. If the public is being systematically kept out, that is a problem that needs solving.
