Reservations at federal parks
While making reservations at Army Corps of Engineer and Forest Service sites,I came across a few things. One is that the COE parks will only take credit cards from now on. Since credit card companies ...
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Mayor30 wrote:
I was talking about if you drive 400 miles and pull into a COE campground. Check in time is 5pm. Because the weather was good,there were no accidents,you arrive at 4pm instead of 5. I have read several instances where they not only won't let you occupy your site, they won't let you pull over and wait. You must exit the campground and wait some where else.I agree if you want to arrive at 9am versus 5pm to make a reservation. This is for people that move from park to park towards their destination. It is not always possible to time your arrival perfectly.
So you just go park at the day use area for an hour. Or make a shopping or dining stop. Or fill up your tank.
One or two hours isn't really a major problem.
And as a camper, I'd get a bit annoyed if someone parked in fron of my campsite and just sat there for an hour waiting to move into another site.
