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 ...
Forum Discussion
Cliff_Michele wrote:Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Priority for federal park reservation system is that they are unable to solve the problem of insiders who block the choicest campsites for their friends.
I was booking a good campsite in the Village at Yosemite NP seconds after it's opening for the next calendar cycle. And lo and behold, by a stroke of incredible miracle, it's all already booked solid.
This toasts my taco. They should leave at least 20% for first come first served to give the rest of us a chance because bots have locked us out of the parks.
Bots and the insiders.
Went to a campground with 4 first-come-first-serve campsites. I was there at 7am to be able to corral it. When I went to the counter, the lady said it's all booked. No protestations from me that there is no one there yet would make her relent.
It was a concession run very popular USFS campgrounds.. Wrote USFS to protest. Did not even got a response of at least acknowledging the receipt of my e-mail.
