Paid for but vacant sites
Most state parks in Iowa consider a site occupied if it's payed for. I find out from co-workers that some public parks they have been to require a payed site to be occupied with a camper or someone ...
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BluStem wrote:
Most state parks in Iowa consider a site occupied if it's payed for.
I find out from co-workers that some public parks they have been to require a payed site to be occupied with a camper or someone else can take it. I maintain if a site is payed for then it should be yours regardless if you have a unit on it or not. Why wouldn't it?
I take a different view. if the site can be reserved then yes, the site belongs to the fellow who made the reservation. but for the first come/first served sites paying for a site and then deliberately not occupying it should be disallowed.
I was a working stiff, too, at one time and sometimes found it difficult to get to our favorite state and county parks in time to snare one of our favorite sites. but we dealt with it. if it was important for us to get one of those sites I made arrangements to get the day or days off. I've seen people roll in on the tuesday or wednesday before a big holiday (back when we used to camp on big holidays), register, park the camper on the site and disappear until Friday afternoon or sometimes until Saturday morning. totally unfair.
