Custer State Park expansion

SDcampowneroperator wrote:
. Custer State Park proposal to build a new $10 mil. 175 site campground on the wildlife loop was lowered by the park officers to a $4.7mil 66 site camp on Stockade Lake. The proposal was amended down to only tent campsites( rustic)
In SD legislative ag and nat resources committee sd hb 1048 had no supporters, a room of full of detractors. It was defeated by a 9-3 vote assigning this bill to the 41st day, which does not exist in SDs schedule, , by a mixed party vote.
The argument for expansion by the CSP officer did not address payment to local government for the increased costs to it and visitatation used on county roads and services.
It was a killing point, along with the ridiculous price tag they had no alternative.
$ 57000/ site. never at proposed rate would they ever recover the bond
They reached for rhe stars, could not get anything off the ground. Dead before it even started.
We in the know saw it as an effort to miseducate the value, misdirect funding to an underfunded project aimed at the concept of basic camping with a fire and Smores with the grandkids A grandiose romantic concept. How we wish.

So in other words, the private campgrounds are driving business away from the rest of the community.

$57k/site, needs about $22/n for 200n/yr to amortize over 20yr @ 5%. Bump the site fee up to $30-40/n to cover utilities and ongoing operating costs...sure looks like it could cover the bond.