I can think of one CG that I was last at in the Uintas a year or so ago. There are no hookups or special services provided, it is the same campground as before with the same pit toilets, no pads, no water etc. Where before it used to be free to park at the trailhead, and $5 to camp, now it is $15 to camp. There isn't even a campground host. No one is there. You also get to pay a day use fee if you park in the trailhead gravel lot. I paid $3 per day to Am L&L for the privilege of leaving my car in a National Forest Trailhead Parking lot that our tax money built. I might think differently if the lot was patrolled or had some kind of security. But again no change in anything there other than cost. So for a week of hiking you get to pay $21 to leave your car. And just exactly what service did they provide???
They haven't built anything, fixed anything, or improved anything. Instead of the Forest Service collecting the money out of the self pay pipes and the money going to improving the campground, it now goes to American Land and Leisure to improve their overhead. Sure it may cost them a little to empty the dumpster and pump out the pit toilets at the end of the year, but from what I have seen the cleaning and supplying of things like TP has gone down.
Rant over. I'll get back on my meds.
Why do they bother to go camping if they spend the day inside their home on wheels watching TV?
