Dumping Tanks in an Empty Full Service Site
Last week I was staying in a full service site in a national park. The park has hundreds of sites, only about a third of which are full service. The rest of the park shares 2 dump stations which are a...
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We were at Carter Caves State Park in Kentucky a couple weeks ago. Long story short, we started in the regular campground with electric and water only. Friday we were offered a site in the horseman's campground that had full hook-up (no extra charge, although the reserve as site is about 3 times as much as the regular campground sites).
Nice spots, but no trees. Long story short, we took the spot. When we pulled in, we were only 1 of 2 campers there. The sites were spacious, long, pull throughs. When I first saw the sites, I thought to myself, (really), why couldn't anyone leaving the regular campground just come down here and dump before hitting the road? To navigate from the campground to the dump station took some very creative navigation, but could be done. And I could just see the potential for a horrible back log of folks waiting in line to dump there.
Before this, I never thought about using a full service site to dump. Probably, because Indiana State Parks have so very, very few full service sites, and the one's I've seen have all been back-in sites. And the horseman's campground (for those state parks that have horseman campgrounds) is gated and can be entered only with a different colored mirror tag. And yes, those sites cost more.
So, it's kind of funny that this subject came up, as I was actually thinking about this same subject just a couple weeks ago.
Nice spots, but no trees. Long story short, we took the spot. When we pulled in, we were only 1 of 2 campers there. The sites were spacious, long, pull throughs. When I first saw the sites, I thought to myself, (really), why couldn't anyone leaving the regular campground just come down here and dump before hitting the road? To navigate from the campground to the dump station took some very creative navigation, but could be done. And I could just see the potential for a horrible back log of folks waiting in line to dump there.
Before this, I never thought about using a full service site to dump. Probably, because Indiana State Parks have so very, very few full service sites, and the one's I've seen have all been back-in sites. And the horseman's campground (for those state parks that have horseman campgrounds) is gated and can be entered only with a different colored mirror tag. And yes, those sites cost more.
So, it's kind of funny that this subject came up, as I was actually thinking about this same subject just a couple weeks ago.
