Later and Later Check-in times

wapiticountry wrote:
It takes more than just seeing if people have checked out. The picnic tables need to be moved back to where they belong and cleaned, fire pits need to be cleaned, sites need to be checked and cleaned of dog doo, trash, cigarette butts etc. Even if it only takes 5 minutes a site, if there are 30 check outs that's two and a half hours non-stop. Then there are always people who arrive early and check out late. If there is a very narrow window between departure and arrival times, that becomes a problem because everybody thinks 30 minutes one way or the other isn't a problem. Make the window 4 or 5 hours and 30 minutes either way isn't an issue. Of course you always have the choice of staying somewhere else if you don't agree with a park's arrival and departure policies.

Never seen a campground where they do all that and we've been to hundreds of campgrounds across the country including COE campgrounds. Not saying they don't exist but what you describe must be extremely rare.

If it was a private campground doing something dumb, I might agree. It's their campground and they can run it any way they like. We are talking about public campgrounds owned by us, the taxpayers, so if we, the owners don't like it, we have every right to complain.