Fighting for campsites 6 months in advance!
All- Is it me or is booking campsites getting harder and harder? I have spent the last couple weeks trying to book a week in July at Ludington SP in Michigan and it was darn near impossible. Ther...
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Durb wrote:
People are gaming the reservation system and are even being coached how to do so on this thread.
If your description of the situation was accurate, then people could easily get campsites simply by showing up at a given time of day and taking one of the site cancellations. That's actually fairly easy to do at some parks, but not at others. On the Oregon coast during the summer, for example, good luck with that.
People's plans change and they may not actually show up when they have a reservation. They consider it worthwhile to make reservations, though, and are willing to pay a cancellation fee if they can't be there. Not everything is a conspiracy, and not everybody is trying to "game the system."
