> I wonder why it is necessary to have all these limits and reservation slots in the first place? For one thing it generates a lot of profits for both recreati

> I wonder why it is necessary to have all these limits and reservation slots in the first place? For one thing it generates a lot of profits for both recreation.gov and (somewhat less) the parks. That's unavoidably going to be a motivation for ever more limits and lotteries. For me that's really soured the idea of going to these places. In the 90s I'd go to any park, show up and hike wherever without any limits, it was great. Now it's hard to be able to ever go, let alone luck into the limited slots.