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re: National Park Service proposing raising entrance fee to $70 at 17 parks - Do you support?
Posted on 10/25/17 at 2:49 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 10/25/17 at 2:49 pm to GetCocky11
Who is going downvote crazy in here?
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Posted on 10/25/17 at 2:57 pm to GetCocky11
Arches is one of my favorite places on earth. I would pay a million dollars to sit inside Delicate Arch at sunset
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:10 pm to GetCocky11
frick no. They're already trying to price people out of the parks.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:11 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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They're already trying to price people out of the parks.
Well yeah, that's the entire point.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:11 pm to idlewatcher
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How is that not price gouging?
Because it’s covering a shorffall in services already provided.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:13 pm to GetCocky11
Good NPS is one of the only things the FedGov does well. They've become very popular vacation options in the last 10 years and need the additional infrastructure and funding to support the growth.
Besides if you're anywhere close to a number of the parks, just buy the annual pass and be done with it.
Besides if you're anywhere close to a number of the parks, just buy the annual pass and be done with it.
This post was edited on 10/25/17 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:15 pm to GetCocky11
"As of 2016, the National Park Service has an annual budget of about $3 billion and an estimated $12 billion maintenance backlog."
So, the annual budget is $3,000,000,000.00 and then they want $70.00 per car? What the hell? Are we having to improve nature, so the animals can live in it?
So, the annual budget is $3,000,000,000.00 and then they want $70.00 per car? What the hell? Are we having to improve nature, so the animals can live in it?
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:16 pm to troyt37
I think it’s also just to have less people during peak seasons as well. Overcrowding of these places takes it toll and ruins experience for others, having fewer, higher paying visitors is a better strategy that I support
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:16 pm to LSUBoo
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They're already trying to price people out of the parks.
Well yeah, that's the entire point.
It goes against the whole idea of public lands. I deal with these frickers a lot and the would rather have no visitors. Federal land managers are out of control
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:17 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Out of control how?
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:18 pm to GetCocky11
Member when they paid folks to keep people out during the shutdown?
I member.
Against the increase.
I member.
Against the increase.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:18 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Well the entrance fee is only raised during peak times it seems, when some of these parks are severely overcrowded as it is... so yeah they are trying to price some people out. Not because they don't want people there, but they don't want as many people there.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:19 pm to GetCocky11
No issue. Keep all the trashy poors away and make the parks less crowded.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:20 pm to jimbeam
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Would certainly keep out those with no respect for nature.
It does the opposite. It favorsmoneyed boorish pigs who know nothing about nature. I've been in this business for decades
If you want to limit access, a lottery system is much more favorable
This post was edited on 10/25/17 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:20 pm to GetCocky11
It will keep most of the rabble out. I'm a supporter of this change.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:20 pm to GetCocky11
anything to keep the daycamping Mexicans out
Posted on 10/25/17 at 3:22 pm to HempHead
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On the other hand, someone willing to pay $70 to get in is unlikely to be a trashy frick who litters and doesn't know what they're doing.
...Trashy folks dropping $70++++ everyday for admission into theme parks, but somehow they can't afford to be trashy at these National Parks? Yeah right. Won't stop them. 
Posted on 10/25/17 at 4:24 pm to MardiGrasCajun
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...Trashy folks dropping $70++++ everyday for admission into theme parks, but somehow they can't afford to be trashy at these National Parks? Yeah right. Won't stop them.
Yeah I wasn't exactly following that logic either. Guess no one here has ever visited Six Flags or Disney
Posted on 10/25/17 at 4:24 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Interesting. Didn't think of it that way.
Posted on 10/25/17 at 4:28 pm to GetCocky11
The gov could just take 1 billion off the 600 billion it spends on defense contractors to cover costs .. nevermind, that's just ridiculous, 599 billion could never cover the defense costs
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