One Day Entry Fee Increase - RMNP

Microlite Mike wrote:

cptqueeg wrote:

Microlite Mike wrote:


Unfortunately the money we're paying isn't going to the parks. It gets re-directed to the usual "Pork Projects".

One thing to note, fees collected at a park don't remain in the park (budget). They go to wherever the political winds blow them.

That's not what the NPS says.


https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/fees-at-work.htm

This tells a little different story:

https://www.npca.org/articles/832-background-the-economics-of-national-parks

There has been more than a 7%, or $173 million reduction in the account to operate national parks and more than a 12%, or $364 million reduction in the total budget for the National Park Service over the last five years in today’s dollars.
The park service’s deferred maintenance backlog has steadily been growing, now at $11.5 billion. Projects are continually added to the backlog in part due to insufficient operations funding to ensure needed day-to-day maintenance. The backlog has also grown because of a steady decline in the ‘construction’ account. Over the last decade, there has been a 62% or $227 million decline in that account in today’s dollars.

Nowhere in your cited 7 year old article does it say that the park fees are going anywhere but to the NPs which is your contention.

That doesn't mean Congress can't cut additional funding as it sees fit which is what the article you posted says.