Paid for but vacant sites

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?

We have a "if you don't have a camping unit it on it within 24 hours of the start of your reservation it's considered abandoned" rule here in our provincial parks. I think it's 24 hours, might be 36.

Nothing chaff's my backside more than coming in to a campground and the sign says "campground full" but if you drive through you see dozens of empty sites.

As a seasonal guy this year, I wish there were rules that stated you have to actively USE the site. There were about six seasonal sites this year that I saw the trailer owner maybe one weekend all summer. $1500 for a spot for summer and you don't use it at all? Why not give it back so someone on the waiting list (ours are done via a lottery draw) can have a spot?

We also have a two week maximum in the park we like (if you're not seasonal) and it's a pain...why can't I rent a site for a month?! I can rent this site for two weeks, then rent THAT site for two weeks, what's the bloody difference?

This might be a bit of a touchy subject for me. lol.