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This is why the fee is charged: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/fees-at-work.htm https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/fees-at-work.htm Ones near urban areas are usually bus
by iscrewyou 8y ago
This is why the fee is charged: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/fees-at-work.htm https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/fees-at-work.htm
Ones near urban areas are usually busy. I’ve lived close to one and there’s usually a line on the weekend in the middle of the day to enter the park. It gets especially worse during holidays or when school is out during the summer.
So I always make it a point to go during weekdays when school is in session.
- benatkin 8y agoThat isn't why. That's why they say that it's charged. The government has other ways of collecting money and there are other ways they could prevent overtourism. I don't know all the reasons why it is the way it is, but people working for the NPS are the last people I'd trust to give a good answer on it.
- ghaff 8y agoCome on. If you're going to a national park you're probably driving a significant distance, often flying, etc. The $20 or so admission fee is not remotely keeping anyone who would otherwise go to a national park from doing so. Maybe there's some weird corner case somewhere but it's reasonable to assume it's vanishingly rare. ADDED: And to be clear, I'm also strongly opposed to raising prices as a way to use market forces to depress use.
- dnautics 8y agoIf you prevent overtourism with quotas you will screw the underprivileged in other ways, e.g. by making it impossible for them to expend the time and effort to make it in under the quota.
- irrational 8y agoEven ones nowhere near an urban area, like Yellowstone, are extremely busy.