HELP ME UNDERSTAND
Finally got a reservation at Champoeg state park here in Oregon. Two loops in this park. B loop open year round. A loop closed 10/31 to march. I am told drainage field for dump station & sewer is ...
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Oasisbob wrote:
This is inter4esting and educational. It was my understanding Oregon state parks were funded by lottery dollars as well as camping fee's? If it is funded exclusively by camping fee's seems it would be prudent to keep parks open longer in the season. Perhaps open earlier. The stats from camp site occupancy would prove this point. Yet they close, or partly close, end of October. Seems the bottom line here is OSP will do what they want to do, bending the rules for some.
OPRD has three major funding sources, User Fees, Lottery dollars, and 60% of RV registration fees. The OPRD budget is public record and easily found on their WEB site.
This is a Link to the current budget, there is a pie chart of revenue sources on page 81.
