Cuts to the Senior discount coming?

accsys wrote:
The National Park Service has done this since 2009 when we visited Alaska. In June of 2009 they started charging additional fees for campsites that had electric/sewer charged an extra fee. As shown at Recreation.gov they charge extra for electric and sewer and (as we found out in 2009) the discount is only available on the basic fee. This was new in the summer of 2009 as we had made reservations several months before and got the discount on the whole campsite fee but when we wanted to add on a couple of days found that terms had changed and we wouldn't get the discount on anything but the basic fee. So this isn't really new since the NFS has been doing it for 10 years except they are talking about restricting the discount a little more than NFS. I just don't think it has been as noticeable since fewer NFS sites have additional amenities.

Fall - 2010, I believe or maybe 2011.
I recall when that happened in a NPS park when we checked in, I think it was Tetons, but not positive. That's when a vendor had taken over, and installed some W/E sites. The vendor had some sites no HU, some sites with the W/E. The sites with no HU were discounted, the sites with W/E were discount on SITE PRICE, but $8 added for W/E service, with no discount. The regular campsite posted fee was full price, plus the $8 fee if it had the HU.

The No HU sites were what remained after the vendor HU were installed, and almost all the no HU sites were too small for any reasonable size RV anyway. We took a no HU site, as we are a Truck Camper and can fit nearly anywhere. And, we don't care about HU ...

One thing that came of this, any reasonable sized TT or 5'er, or MH could ONLY fit in HU sites, so had to take the HU and the fee-add.