Virginia State Parks and dogs
Was just looking at some Virginia State Parks since we are not too far awa from Virginia and noticed they charge you $5 per night for having a dog with you. Kind of silly for a State Park to charg...
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Oaklevel wrote:dahkota wrote:
From the replies here, it seems the fee is working; some people with dogs are no longer going to the state parks.
We camp a lot in MD, VA, and PA. MD and PA do not charge an extra fee for dogs but limit the sites by location where one is permitted with dogs. This causes a problem for us as often, all pet sites are taken, often by non-pet owners. This is not a problem in VA. An extreme example is Assateague State Park which, until this year, had exactly six pet sites out of a total of 350 sites. One had to book almost a year in advance to get one.
No the fee is not working being overpriced I stopped by our local State Park this afternoon talked to a Ranger & camping is down since the fees......plenty of open sites, before the fees they were full these late April early May weekends & plenty of room for Mothers Day weekend....unless they have a last minute rush ..... I'm sure some of the other parks are different....... (The other part of it is there are Corp Parks & private campgrounds very near by & cheaper)
There are not many if any totally full CG's this time of year in this area.
Check the capacity during peak season if you really want to see if there are vacancies. I can pick up the phone and go anywhere I want this time of year.
