2014 Oregon State Parks Rate Increase

Carl n Susan wrote:

chrishavel wrote:


...Only the campers with Tillamook County reservations have to worry about owing more for an existing reservation. We're honoring the old, lower rates on all the other reservations unless the visitor makes a change to their reservation after January 1.....

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Chris, Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept.
park.info@state.or.us
1-800-551-6949 (info)
1-800-452-5687 (reservations)
oregonstateparks.org (info and reservations)

Actually ReserveAmerica started collecting the new rates for any post May 1, 2014 reservations when they were made after October 7, 2013. The announcement letter seems to only document the rate change. Last year I paid $24 for a RV site and $39 for a cabin. The reservation I made on 11/27 for Sep 2014 is $26 for a RV site and $40 for a cabin.

I don't have a problem with an increase, I just wanted to understand how much it was and how I was to pay it.

I too love the OR parks but I also know they suffer the same funding shortages as the parks in CA. One park I frequent experienced a break in the sewer line servicing the RV sites. Rather than fixing the leak, OPRD decided to remove the RV sewer connection. Reason: no funds to repair. But they did have funds to upgrade the power from 15 amp to 30 amp.

Thanks Chris for the response.

Yes, that's what I should have said. The "we honor old rates" refers to reservations made before we started collecting the higher 2014 campsite rate back in October for stays starting May 1, 2014. If you made a reservation in September for Memorial Day 2014, we didn't go back to those old reservations and charge them more -- they got grandparented* in.

The tax thing is different. The county isn't offering a grace period for reservations that are already on the books; any stay starting January 1 owes the tax, no matter when the reservation was made.

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*It's International Gender-neutral Idiom Day.

Thanks.
Chris