olyclimber Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 $15 to drive your car in $5 + $2 per person per night (35 total) = $50 to go hiking in the park. crazy to think it wasn't that long ago it was totally free to go into the park (or rather funded differently). i realize this is a "pay if you use it" tax that couch potatoes don't have to pay because they never use the park, but i don't think it will ever sit well with me. for me the park used to be a wild place you could wander into and explore...now it seems like that experience is just another commodity with and entrance fee and a daily charge. i know there are great rangers working there and this helps pay for the up keep of the "resource". it just feels a bit like innocence lost. the spirit of freedom and wildness feels weakened by the daily fee. like its a thing i buy at REI and it has a UPC. as a kid i remember being able to go hiking up there any time without checking in and paying the man. now when i'm going to take my boy hiking in there, we have to feed the meter to get in. they even spend something like 20% on "fee recovery" aka enforcing the fees on people who don't pay the piper. i just wish it was funded as it was before. perhaps there are just too many people visiting/too many people on the earth for that to be a possibility. I guess this is progress, and I can always go to Alaska to find what i'm seeking. /end bitching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 dude...the tom method. its worked several times for me in ONP "Permit?" "Yea, my buddy Tom's got it...he's prolly a quarter mile back or so" I think I have about 50 or so nights without fee now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duchess Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Cost to go hiking at NCNP $0 to drive your car in $0 to park at any trailhead $0 per person per night (0 total) = $0 to go hiking in the park. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skykilo Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 And that somehow makes it all better on the peninsula!? And don't you work at MRNP!? Don't get me started.... At least you're not in California yet, Porter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pink Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 $15 to drive your car in $5 + $2 per person per night (35 total) = $50 to go hiking in the park. crazy to think it wasn't that long ago it was totally free to go into the park (or rather funded differently). i realize this is a "pay if you use it" tax that couch potatoes don't have to pay because they never use the park, but i don't think it will ever sit well with me. for me the park used to be a wild place you could wander into and explore...now it seems like that experience is just another commodity with and entrance fee and a daily charge. i know there are great rangers working there and this helps pay for the up keep of the "resource". it just feels a bit like innocence lost. the spirit of freedom and wildness feels weakened by the daily fee. like its a thing i buy at REI and it has a UPC. as a kid i remember being able to go hiking up there any time without checking in and paying the man. now when i'm going to take my boy hiking in there, we have to feed the meter to get in. they even spend something like 20% on "fee recovery" aka enforcing the fees on people who don't pay the piper. i just wish it was funded as it was before. perhaps there are just too many people visiting/too many people on the earth for that to be a possibility. I guess this is progress, and I can always go to Alaska to find what i'm seeking. /end bitching well at least you don't have to check your bag at the trailhead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peakpimp Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 well at least you don't have to check your bag at the trailhead... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtn_mouse Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 whatever. I have only had to pay the entrance fee. All other fees are easy to avoid. You must stick to nature trails only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 its the spirit of the thing. you're stealing a moment on land that you own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I don't remember how much it cost me to hike on non-maintained trails on the Bailey Range, but it was a lot. I got revenge by pissing in their wilderness!!!1 lolz who's the ranger now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 when they ask for my permit now I just give them Drew's name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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