Louisiana State Park fee increases
Effective March 1st. If you plan on making reservations, old rates will be honored until March 1st. Fairly steep increase in addition to now including state tax and other fees. http://www.crt.sta...
Forum Discussion
bogeygolfer wrote:
State Parks are not now, and will never be "cash cows". They should break even, however, and those who use them should bear the majority of the cost.
Heck, I wish they would raise the fees at some of our Texas State Parks to reflect the true value and demand for campsites. Maybe then, we could actually get a reservation at some of our favorite ones without having to try a year in advance.
Respectfully disagreeing with you. It's all about location, location, location. I can think of 2 SPs in CT that apparently make enough money to keep the other 40 odd campgrounds in business: Rocky Neck and Hammonasett. Both are located on Long Island Sound, and have 160 and over 500 sites respectively. Were the state of CT to have a separate ledger for their campgrounds I suspect they could have avoided closing 3 or 4 campgrounds last year. Instead, they played games with the budget funds for the last several years. For 2 solid years, during the height of the Great Recession, they budgeted nooooooo funds for tourism, leaving the line in place on the state's official budget but a zero amt. Seemed willfully backwards thinking to me.
