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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karead7 wrote:
Interesting discussion. Our campground has been "sold out" several times this season, but there are always five or six empty sites. And when there are, do I hear about it! Always from someone who would have showed up a day or two earlier had they known. I think two policies should be instituted. One, weekend camping should be booked for a minimum of both Friday and Saturday nights. That alleviated the problem of there only being several one night sites left empty. And two, if you don't show up for your first reserved night, and we can't get hold of you, your campsite is considered abandoned, whether you paid for it or not.
Not everyone's job situation allows them to arrive on Friday night. Maybe they can't arrive until Saturday, but knowing that they ARE going to arrive on Saturday, they reserve both nights. Believe it or not -- we have camped in places that there is no way to get in touch with the actual person on-site. All contact was made via a 3rd party that is not actually at the campground.
