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None of those things relate to being charged $15 per night per person for a spot with no facilities where you carry everything out 5km from the nearest transpor

• JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  > None of those things relate to being charged $15 per night per person for a spot with no facilities Back-country rangers have to be paid. And campers cause more damage than day hikers. That requires enforcement and mitigation. I believe NPS fees have tracked under inflation over the decades. Camping, based on fees alone, is cheaper than it once was. (And if you don’t want to pay the Park Service there are our National Forests.)
  • dahart 4y ago
    > Camping, based on fees alone, is cheaper than it once was. This sounds right to me, a lot of my local parks seem to have rarely or never increased fees for decades. Several nearby canyon parks have had the same fees as long as I can remember. I keep expecting an increase, and am consistently surprised year after year that the prices stay fixed, making it relatively cheaper each year. Even the annual park fees are super low, making it incredibly easy to amortize the per-night cost of camping to be even cheaper, provided you want to do it more than once or twice in a year.