Algonquin Provincial Park - power access
Was checking out Algonquin park and it seems to say that the power pedestals are 30 meters from the site. Is this right? Do people really need nearly 100 feet of power cable and extensions?
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Yes - it is sad - even angering - that Obatanga was closed.
Our relationship with Obatanga goes back to the late 60's - before the campground was expanded, before the installation of electrical pedestals, comfort station, amphitheatre and even before a pumphouse was put in. Seemed a fairly comfortably used campground at the time and through the years it always remained one of our favourite Parks even though we visited it only intermittently (Neys, Rossport Campground and Agawa Campground are tough competition - agree with your comments on White Lake).
Obatanga seems to have suffered a classic case of over-development - of "if you build it they will come" - but they didn't - heck of a hard lesson ..... having said that .... there had to have been other ways of dealing with its issues rather than shutting the entire campground down.
Jay
Our relationship with Obatanga goes back to the late 60's - before the campground was expanded, before the installation of electrical pedestals, comfort station, amphitheatre and even before a pumphouse was put in. Seemed a fairly comfortably used campground at the time and through the years it always remained one of our favourite Parks even though we visited it only intermittently (Neys, Rossport Campground and Agawa Campground are tough competition - agree with your comments on White Lake).
Obatanga seems to have suffered a classic case of over-development - of "if you build it they will come" - but they didn't - heck of a hard lesson ..... having said that .... there had to have been other ways of dealing with its issues rather than shutting the entire campground down.
Jay
