Zephyr Cove Charging $75 a night!
This is a USFS land but managed exclusively by for profit concessionaire. I felt this makes this campground out of reach by ordinary American and defeats the goals and reasons for having public lan...
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At one time a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the cafeteria in Yosemite Valley was $7.50. The park service instituted a rule that concessionaires could not charge prices higher than the areas around the parks. Taking that and running with it, they raised the accommodation fees to match equivalent resorts around the areas.
The price of a PB&J dropped to Zero, they were taken off the menus, the price for rooms went from reasonable to extremely high. Now things seemed to have leveled out and are closer to the surrounding areas but with adjustments for supply and demand. While the OP is talking about Forest Service lands vs NPS lands the ownership and rules are the near same for both Departments.
The price of a PB&J dropped to Zero, they were taken off the menus, the price for rooms went from reasonable to extremely high. Now things seemed to have leveled out and are closer to the surrounding areas but with adjustments for supply and demand. While the OP is talking about Forest Service lands vs NPS lands the ownership and rules are the near same for both Departments.
