Tom and Margi
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Kevin Means said:The surcharge is supposedly to encourage residents to stay home, and to help recover funds from the State's loss of revenue - all due to the Wuhan virus. How much do you want to be that the higher fees stay in place when the virus is no longer a problem.
Kev
PJ Stough said:I can see how collecting more money from out of staters helps make up for lost revenue, but I dont see how that gets Oregon residents to stay home. Unless you mean it would maybe keep the out of staters from coming to Oregon, and make more room in Oregon campgrounds for Oregonians.
Paul
UTTransplant said:I still would pay extra to stay at some of the coastal sites in Oregon,
HappyWanderer said:Rhode Island increased their out of state rates significantly last year. After 15 years of enjoying RI parks, we?re done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Parks_and_Recreation_DepartmentOregon ranked 30th in the nation in state park acreage per 1,000 people. At the same time, it ranked second nationally for the number of park visitors per acre, indicating that the state?s limited area of parks are intensively used.[7]
https://www.ohs.org/education/tom-mccall-better-oregon/quotes.cfm"We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going." (1971)
We obviously didn't visit all Oregon state parks in the 80's, 90's and 2000's, and I don't recall which ones we visited. But I don't recall any issues with width at the entrance/approach to sites. We were driving motorhomes towing a car or SUV. If we were towing a trailer or 5W I might have noticed.It isn't the length of the sites but the the lack of width at the approach...
John From Detroit said:Many State and county/city parks have two rates one for residents one for non-residents.
RRR said:Many of you may not know that the OSP's are not funded by taxes in any way. Funding is by user fees, Lottery proceeds, vehicle fees, and donations and by lots of volunteer help.