Weekend at a "dry" campground
What a difference it makes staying at a "dry" campground. P J Hoffmasters park in Muskegon, big NO ALCOHOL signs everywhere, I was kind of impressed. I didn't notice them when I stayed a few years ...
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ford truck guy wrote:Bionic Man wrote:
I'd have more issues with the no campfires policy (if that is the policy) than the no alcohol. To me, a campfire is a vital part of the camping experience.
As far as alcohol, we go to a couple places where it is "prohibited". And all Colorado State Parks limit alcohol to 3.2% only. But the only time I have ever seen anything enforced on that was one time when the ranger stoped and asked us to move a bottle of hard alcohol off the top of the picnic table and onto the ground where it "wasn't obvious". Seems more of a tool that they can use to crack down when necessary, than an actual prohibition.
They did not say there was a campfire restriction.... They DID say that there was a policy that prohibited you from bringing your own firewood... Many of the local campgrounds around here have that same rule.. They say it is to stop the bugs... I say it is to make more money
Yep, you can still have campfires, you just buy the junk wood the head ranger's cousin sells inside the park, at $7 a bundle, instead of mom 'n pop up the road selling it for $4, or bringing some of your own supply with you.
The maps of bugs for Michigan show they're spread pretty much state wide already, and even into the UP. I don't see how a campfire-wood prohibition is going to cure that, but it will make money for the ranger's cousin.
