We ended up very fortunate. The park opened back up on Thursday and we were able to make our trip Friday thru Sunday. The place was gorgeous and we even got to see a bear climbing a tree.
We were in the generator free zone, but there were two campers outside of the generator free zone running generators maybe 50 yards from us. A Class C and a Class B. Boy those built in generators sure are loud. A few travel trailers and 5th wheels had the Honda inverter generators and you could barely hear them at all. The built-ins were another story. They allow you to run them 4pm thru 9pm during the fall evenings and 8am to 10am in the morning. These people pulled in the same time as us around 3pm, 4pm sharp they are both in their units generators blasting away. At 9:20pm, the ranger finally came around and told them to shut them off. 7am the next morning and the generators are screaming again. I don't understand, they just got to the park, they should arrive with full battery power. We have no generator and (2) 6V GC135's. We have converted to all LED lighting for maybe $65 on evay. We had all the light we wanted, the heat on for two nights, watched a movie on TV Friday night, watched the Today show Sunday morning, ran the water pump for (4) peoples worth of showers, toilet, and dishes, and left with the battery meter reading 2/3 state of charge. If you have a generator and want to fire it up long enough to run the microwave or make a pot of coffee fine. If you need to charge your batteries up for a few hours after your first night to make it thru the 2nd night then I get that also. But if you need to run your generator for the better part of 7 hours every day with no regard for the people around you (especially those in pop-ups and tents) then perhaps you should consider staying in a full hook-up campground somewhere off the mountain. I never so much as saw these people outside of their camper except when they first arrived and when they left.
