National Park and National Forests Bummer
I camp in National Forest Campgrounds around my home state and with my senior pass I get 1/2 price camping. To my surprise I got a measely 10% discount in the Everglades campground. Huh? It's under a ...
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Park Rangers are for the most part excellent, but I'm not talking about Rangers. I'm talking about facilities management and improvements. Something that your average Ranger you see in the parks has little to do with.
The Coyote blog author tells of one situation where he tried to improve a decrepit bathroom by installing new drain pipes. A quick job which would of had a good influence on the campground. The Park Rangers blocked it saying to run a pipe UNDER the road would require an Archaeological Study and a Ecological Impact Study. Both costing hundreds of thousands and taking months if not year. And they were not budgeted for, so the park continues to have backed up drains in the bathroom. If you ask me we'd be better off with that kind of thinking gone from the parks.
And another example of Park Ranger right think, during the government shutdown a few years ago Park Rangers ran people off for stopping along the road to look at Mt Rushmore, even tho the road was state property not the parks. And another bunch tried to close the parking lot at Washington's home in Virginia even tho they didn't own or operate that facility. The people running the place had to clear out traffic cones blocking the parking lot every morning.
And I'll leave it to you as a homework exercise to find out how they behaved at the National Mall.
The Coyote blog author tells of one situation where he tried to improve a decrepit bathroom by installing new drain pipes. A quick job which would of had a good influence on the campground. The Park Rangers blocked it saying to run a pipe UNDER the road would require an Archaeological Study and a Ecological Impact Study. Both costing hundreds of thousands and taking months if not year. And they were not budgeted for, so the park continues to have backed up drains in the bathroom. If you ask me we'd be better off with that kind of thinking gone from the parks.
And another example of Park Ranger right think, during the government shutdown a few years ago Park Rangers ran people off for stopping along the road to look at Mt Rushmore, even tho the road was state property not the parks. And another bunch tried to close the parking lot at Washington's home in Virginia even tho they didn't own or operate that facility. The people running the place had to clear out traffic cones blocking the parking lot every morning.
And I'll leave it to you as a homework exercise to find out how they behaved at the National Mall.
