Colorado state park system failing the people.

Steve Wolf wrote:
What do you pay taxes for? In Ohio, our State Parks have no visitor fees.
We support them with out taxes. User fees work well for
infrastructure-related items such as airports or campgrounds. To pay to go
look at trees speaks to all that is wrong in the world.

Steve


I don't understand how any of these rate hikes is related to the park
system "failing the people." I guess if you judge success on the
grounds of ridiculously low prices, maybe. Does that mean that anything



I'd like to know how Ohio pays for parks without taxes or visitor fees, or
what the "user fees" are. Texas parks are pretty self-supporting, but cost
$2-3 for daily admission, $50 for annual pass, and campsites $12 (WE), $18
(WES) or $21 (Premium - lake fronts WES) per night. And the state parks are
rated in the top 5 in the US.

Marv

"Anonymous Sender" wrote in message
acolo.com...
While the annual vehicle entrance pass will increase from $50 to $55, the
"Aspen Leaf" pass for senior citizens will increase from $10 to $27.

It is really a tough thing when you only have to pay
a little less than 50% of the normal rate. It is kind
of pathetic to complain when you get this big of a
discount.

Just because you went from an 80% to a 50%+
discount doesn't mean that the current rates are
wrong. Expecting to get things for next to nothing
is not fair to the people who have to pay the full fee.