That's a good question. I assume the author had some direct experience that motivated him. In decades past, I found myself at the very small campground end of the very long road into Arches National Park late at night and without a spot. Other campers were nice enough to allow us to share their spot, while the campground host had more of a "tough luck" attitude. Its a different situation different there now, because you sign up for a spot before you even enter the park. But the system doesn't work well for bikers. If you are one of the few lucky souls to get a spot when they dole them sharply out at 7:00am, you still have to "prove-up" by riding all the way in and pitching camp within a few hours. For a biker, that doesn't really make sense, since you'd likely rather savor the journey or make it the last task of the day.
I live in the Grand Teton/ Yellowstone region. Many of our campgrounds are first-come / first-serve. Some do have a limited number of "walk-in" sites that don't get released to vehicular campers, but not all of them. If you found yourself at one of those other locations, I think you'd be at the mercy of other campers - just like I was. But I don't have first hand experience bike camping here. Funny how you don't take advantage of the things that are close to home. On Dec 7, 4:10 pm, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this a problem? In my experience, NPS campgrounds have either > "unlimited" capacity hiker-biker sites or they have campground hosts that > are willing to make accommodations for a weary cyclist. > > > > On Friday, December 7, 2012 4:50:30 PM UTC-6, iamkeith wrote: > > > A friend just sent me a link to this petiton on the whitehouse.gov > > website, and I thought many of you would be interested. Since its > > political and everyone is entitled to have their own views, I'll stop > > short of saying "sign it." > > > But it's a nice idea: If someone arrives at a National Park Service > > campground under self-propelled power, but the campground is otherwise > > full, then the campground would have to accommodate them anyway. If > > you've ever been stuck in a national park late at night without a > > place to camp, miles from the next possible location, and not even > > knowing if it will have availability, you understand what a nice thing > > this would be. > > > Otherwise, I don't know much about the petition process or the > > individual/organization who started this one. Looks like it has met > > the minimum number required to be officially "posted" "or "searchable" > > but it still needs a lot of signatures in the next few days in order > > to meet the author's goals. > > >https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/require-national-park-servi...- > >Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
