ksg5000 wrote:
The Oregon State Parks I have visited seem to be in constant state of upgrade - but the camping demands are putting pressure on the System. New Parks are coming on-line but Parks like Stubs are going to take many years to mature into legit alternatives to some of the better/older parks.
BTW - Silver Falls State Park and many other Oregon State Parks were build as part of the older WPA projects under FDR. May give you better perspective of age and resources available.
Stubs is headed in the right direction this was fourth year that we have hosted at Stubs. We had more full weekends this year than the last three and we were only there June and July. Here at South Beach the campground full sign was up for
Almost all of August, and September, now in October it is slowing down, but even this stormy weekend we had a lot of storm watchers with winds up to 50 mph and heavy rain.
On the subject of Rangers I believe that the Park Rangers in Oregon are great. Both the full time and seasonal. They are as a whole hard working, and love what they do.
Oregon SP also have a fairly stable funding source it consist of User Fees, 60% of RV registration fees, and a share of lottery dollars.
