Florida State Parks increasing fees.

bucky wrote:
The simple reason that they won't do it is that they need our tourist money. I guess that you could vote for a state income tax if you wanted, your choice.
I didn't realize ya'll FL residents were so selfish. I'll call Gov Cooper later and get a toll gate installed at the NC border.

Florida State parks have a total of of 3700 campsites in the entire system. Compare that just to Disney, that has over 36,000 hotels rooms on their property alone. The Orlando area has over 120,000 hotel rooms and Florida has about 500,000 hotel rooms and then add in Air BnB and VRBO and the huge number of private campgrounds.
State park campsite revenue is not even a rounding error in the big picture of transient rental income.
The number of private campsites far outnumber the ones available in the state system and they are put at a disadvantage since the State Parks are funded and subsidized by Florida tax payers. Lets also try to level the playing field by setting us a price differential for residents vs non-residents
You might compare price with a state like Massachusetts, at their Scusset Beach campground, residents pay $22.... non-residents pay $70. There are price/reservation differences for residents vs non-residents in 26 of the 50 US states. Now consider, that most of the other 24 states that don't have a differential are non-tourist destinations. Seems fair that people that have paid their taxes to support the state parks should get a reduced charge to use them and in order to use them, there should be a preference in reservation access for residents that paid those taxes.