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Community Alumni
Oct 12, 2019

Push to privatize National Park Service campgrounds

I don't mind having concessionaires run some of the National Parks, as it is being done now. However, I don't want to see our National Parks turned into garish Disneyland-like attractions. I reali...
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Bert_Ackerman
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Oct 12, 2019
gemsworld wrote:


Seniors are one group that might be hit hard by the policies, if adopted.

The memo argues that the 50 percent discount for seniors should apply only to base campsite fees and encourages NPS to introduce “new senior fee blackout periods during peak season periods.”



A good idea that makes a lot of sense. Why do seniors get a %50 discount to begin with, or a discount at all.

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