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PamfromVA
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Dec 08, 2013

VA state parks

Starting 2014 are no longer requiring a dog fee for campers.

http://www.virginiaoutdoors.com/article/more/4750

Could not make it a link from my iPad...

16 Replies

  • Two questions:

    1. Are other fees staying the same?

    2. Do these fees REALLY keep you people from camping in the state parks? I just don't buy that.
  • Great news! We may return to camping at the Virginia State Parks more often, putting our lifetime pass (gives us day entry to all parks, plus 10% off camping) to use again.

    Of course since we just got a new 5er that is 4' longer we may have to be a bit more picky about our parks....

    BTW, they reclassified many of the sites at Smith Mountain Lake SP as 50' (instead of 30'). We stayed there in October. They have not made the sites any longer and many/most of them are a very tight backin with ditches on either side.
  • nypatnva wrote:
    After 10 years of not camping at VA state parks because of the dog fees, I can finally go camping at a state park 18 miles down the road.


    Imagine that. A government, in this day and age reducing taxes for the benefit of it's constituents! Who da thunk it?
  • After 10 years of not camping at VA state parks because of the dog fees, I can finally go camping at a state park 18 miles down the road.

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