Skyline Drive is a glorified safari park. Most visitors stop once or twice to take a picture at scenic overlooks and never set foot on a trail, leaving behind tons of garbage and road wear with little to no actual interaction with nature.
I see this is as no more than an excise tax, same as your trout stamp (not needed in SNP BTW). Excise taxes both protect and fund high-demand public operations like the National Parks System. Granted, I agree it's a pretty aggressive increase and should probably be dialed back a bit.
I also used to live within earshot of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, which is the only National Park that has NO entry fee and also boasts the highest visitation rate of any National Park. It also gets trashed by visitors more than any other park in the system. I've picked too many beer cans and dirty diapers out of trout water to believe that providing unrestrained access to a park promotes communion with nature. As much as that is a romantic thought -it simply isn't a reality.
On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 6:45:47 PM UTC-4, Yambag Nelson wrote:
That is the whole point. They want to price people out so they can say no one is visiting the parks.
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