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2gypsies wrote:

Oasisbob wrote:
Interesting thoughts on our short weekend. It was a USFS facility. One camp host. No rangers to be seen. No cell service as we are T Mobile customers. In short it was our problem. Could have reported them Saturday morning. Then wondered about retaliation while we wee out fishing. We have been camping many years and this is the new normal. I will not expose my kids to this again

I can assure you that if you would have contacted the host, the host would have warned them once and then would have had a direct line to other authority - the park ranger (who is usually nearby) or the Sheriff. Even if you see no security, the host always has a contact number.

A slightly similar occurrence - we were hosts in Rocky Mtn. Nat'l Park and had an instance of a camper going away for the day with his cooler and food setting on the table. There are signs right on the table to stow your cooler and food from bears. Our directive was if we were to see this happen, pack up everything and put it in the office and let the ranger deal with it, which we did.

At 11pm the party returned and knocked on our door asking about his cooler. He demanded that we go to the office and get it for him. We said it wasn't up to us to give it to him. He got mad and demanded we call the ranger. We stated the ranger will be in the office at 8am to give it to him. The party was kicked out for being beligerant to us the previous night.

There are rules put into place to deal with things. Next time, your first contact should be the host.

I guess different parks and/or states have different policies and camp host duties. LEOs, in the form of state troopers and DeCon POs, patrol the state parks of CT. Were I a camp host, I'd rather they deal with potentially explosive encounters since one would assume they have more confrontation training.

However the policy goes from area to area most parks have a listing of emergency numbers at the check-in desk; I make sure to take them down.