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Our family tradition is to go out camping every Memorial day weekend so we made reservations way in advance. Set up camp last night. Roasting marshmellows with the family when neighbors move in. St...
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westend wrote:
I've left a campground twice (before I planned to). Both incidents were in a State Park. Both involved guns. Both involved drunks. One was reported to the Ranger because of the stated amount of ammunition to be used and calibers.
we were at Mississippi Palisades State Park (Illinois) one weekend (not a holiday). one night around 10pm a group of drunks at a nearby campsite were getting especially disruptive...noise, loud music, shouting, breaking glass bottles against rocks, etc. I reported them to the ranger who warned them to quiet down. they didn't and were ejected from the park right then and there. the rangers waited and watched as the group packed up and left the park.
an experience at the Traverse City State Park in Michigan had a different ending. same general problem but the ranger staff did nothing about it. that and the double daily entry fee turned us off permanently to Michigan state parks in general and the TC state park in particular.
