Claiming a first come campsite
Curious as to what people do when they go to a first come first serve campground without formal registration. BLM for example states: "Camping equipment and/or a recreational vehicle is set up at the ...
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Veebyes wrote:koda55 wrote:
I would think that if someone has paid for their site and leave for site seeing or what ever, if someone wanted the site and went to pay for it, the host or ranger would not give them the site because they will see it is paid for when they check to see if that stheite is available.
The issue is not about paid for sites. It is about people who attempt to claim sites without payment.
Also about people who pay for sites, but don't occupy them. Most all campgrounds require the site be occupied on the first night of the reservation or it's forfeit. This is about folks who come up on a Wednesday, say, and sometimes pay, sometimes not, put out a couple chairs or a pup tent, but they don't actually start to camp until the weekend.
Since I'm retired and camp mostly on weekdays, I've seen this happen on occasion.
