As a young kid, we traveled as a family, to Yellowstone, as well as Mt Rushmore/Badlands, Niagara Falls and many other places. I have not been back in my adult life, but it is in my thought/planning phase, although probably a year plus out.
Having said that, I think it's interesting to be able to banter about solutions, but at the end of the day, I don't see anything actually happening. I don't think anyone from the Department of Interior will be looking at RV.net for a solution to a problem they don't perceive.
But, in the interest of bantering about just for the sake of argument, maybe privatization of accommodations (or expanded privatization) could work. Problem is, someone has to manage that, and control the expansion, but assuming for the sake of argument, an actual planning function could be done, and careful expansion is executed and managed, let private companies offer solutions that have to be approved and are in keeping with the overall objective of maintaining the beauty and keeping the area as pristine as possible.
But, in the end, I believe that would fail, because the greed of the individual companies, and the GOV would expect their cut, and then the greed of the GOV would demand further expansion 'because we want to make it available to everyone', and as a result, it would be destroyed in the future.
My two cents... leave it as is. I may change my mind when I visit as an adult, but from what I've read, it's so **** crowded now that Im not sure it can withstand additional visitors.
Mike
