Durb wrote:
We like Silver Falls State Park especially in the fall when the colors are in and the waterfalls are raging. We went this spring and our friends us acquired the last two sites available in the hook up loop. When we arrived the campground was nearly empty and didn't fill up until the week end. Either the reservation system is faulty or your fellow campers are gaming the reservation system by canceling at the last minute and making it impossible for people that need to plan ahead get reservations. I think the latter.
Here are a few questions to ponder:
- Do you make reservations with little intention of using them?
- Do you make a reservation as a back up?
- Do you consider the cancellation fee to be no big deal?
- Do you have a spreadsheet with your reservations that has a column for the last day to cancel?
- Do you have a reservation and not show up and not cancel and just eat the reservation fee and one night site rental?
- If you have to cancel late and have to eat a site charge do you insist the site remain empty even though a family would like to occupy it?
- Do you make a campsite reservation just for your boat denying the site to someone that wants to take their family camping?
If yes to any of these questions then maybe the problem of ostensibly full parks but in reality empty parks lies within.
Keep in mind that if the park is full on the weekend, and you are looking for a
Monday to Sunday reservation then you won’t be able to book the request.
We always used Reserve America’s web site, that way you can see which days sites are booked for.
