How much should a night of camping cost?
Okay all, I pose that question to you. Now, I am talking about trailer camping, electric at least and more than likely water. We live in Hamilton County, Indiana. It's a quite wealthy set of towns ...
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Lantley wrote:
While I'm not from Indy. I don't find $26.00 overpriced. State Parks need to charge a fees and collect as much as they can so they can be as self sufficient as possible.
The days of relying totally on taxpayer subsidies are over.
State parks will always be low priority in the state budgets.
If state parks are to survive they will need tom pay their own way somewhat otherwise the bean counters will slowly defund them into extinction.
I am going to do something unheard of on internet forums, and go against my original position to agree with you.
I do still somewhat feel that $26 a night for electric-only sites is a little high, when coupled with the gate fee, pool fee, and firewood screw job.
However, I just watched a PBS documentary about Indiana state parks and Richard Lieber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lieber).
I learned that he was insistent that the parks charge gate fees, as he felt that would make the people appreciate them more. I definitely agree with that logic.
Indiana has fantastic state parks and I guess that means we might sometimes have to pay a little more.
