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I think its a big concern right now. take the Banff national park for example, now try to book a weekend, any weekend a day or two after it opens for the season, you might get lucky but chances are you won't. Two years ago I was in the que for the opening day of the reservation site for the season, I was 175th in que as I was up and called in very fast, by the time I got up to my turn there were no sites available for the whole season so over 1000 sites in the park were booked solid from may to end of September by 174 people. personally I think a lot were companies and such doing mass bookings which shouldn't be allowed but hey.
so now why do I mention this, tenting sites are non reservable, for the most part, and there are tones of sites just for tenting in the park, probably close to what there is for rv's so its not a small community. now if they start getting in on the bookings for rv power sites that's going to conject a system that is already overloaded due to tourism and such and then spread out to provincial and state parks. I know I have been seeing it once and a while, but it is becoming more common to see a tent site with a tesla or kia plugged in to the 120V plug.
Obviously, if an area already has issues with their grid, there will be challenges but a long weekend in Banff with a truck able to tow 230miles, is pretty doable.
Downtown Calgary to Banff is about 85 miles. Round trip would be 170miles, leaving 50 miles towing range, which translates to around 100miles not towing for doing a bit of driving around.
If you add a stop to charge just before entering/exiting the mountains it drops to 35 miles (70 round trip) to Baff and towing up to Lake Louise is viable for a weekend without needing to charge within the park.
A similar complaint could be formulated about those pesky fuel trucks clogging up the road to Banff.