Boondocking in a national park lodge parking lot?
Any rules against overnighting in the parking lot of Old Faithful Lodge, or some other busy place? What if you have a room, and some of the family were to sleep out in a camper?
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3oaks wrote:How about just accepting the rule and live with it. While it is not asking to overnight in an area where it is expressly prohibited, we get people asking to do something we prohibit all the time. They want to set up tents on their sites, they want to have campfires, they want to park on the grass instead of in the parking areas etc. etc. Yes they ask, but then they don't accept the answer. Most of the time we get into discussions (author's use of polite, non-judgemental term) about why such a rule exists and we receive an upbraiding as to why it shouldn't apply to them.toedtoes wrote:Exactly! It's amazing how many people think "Rules and Regulations" are not meant for them.
I agree with you. My point was just that by asking, the worst that will happen is they say no and you go elsewhere. By doing it behind their backs, you risk a lot more.
Sometimes there are exceptions, of course, and nothing wrong with that as long as prior permission is granted by those in charge.
Both asking permission and asking forgiveness puts additional burdens on the authorities they do not need. It is the constant barrage of incidents like this that cause those authority people to have what is viewed as bad attitudes. "Because I said so" and "it's the rule, and you need to follow it" become the default answer because no one asks for permission with the mindset that if the answer is "no" they will just accept it and move on.
