Posted on 05/29/2015 12:57:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The fee for an adult to enter Northern California’s popular Muir Woods will increase from $7 to $10 in 2016.
Entry for children under 16 years of age will continue to be free, said the National Park Service, which announced the price increase on Thursday.
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Any time money flows from my pocket to the government, it’s a tax, not a fee.
Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Rough Riders in a charge on Capitol Hill 4 or 5 years ago.
The Woods are pretty cool. A low entry fee tends to keep out the predator takers.
Does it apply to those with those senior park passes too?
This land was taken into federal custody for the benefit of all people... Of course, those people who DARE to visit it, here’s the bucket where you can stick a tenner. Tips are welcome as well, I’m sure.
Your national heritage, be sure to pay for the privilege of looking at it.
Ping
Maybe. But, TR was the 1st Progressive POTUS.
Kettle Hill
Like when we go to the beach we avoid public beaches for state parks with a fee, it weeds out the riff-raff.
He had faults, but at least he was an *American*.
Predator takers?
More visitors to the park actually leads to less illicit activity in the park.
Consider if it were free with no gate keepers...
There are Parks and Open Spaces that have no gate keepers. More traffic means less dumping, less illegal agriculture.
I don’t get the concept of us having to pay fees, and especially expensive fees, to go into the woods and outdoors.
I want to drive 25 miles into my local mountains to go camping, but the only place to do it is on government land, and they want about $30.00 a night.
On the public road going through the mountains, you can drive for free, but if you stop to look at something, (yes, literally pull over just to gaze at the view), then you need a $5.00 stopping fee document.
When I travel cross country I sleep in the car, I don’t even pay $30.00 to sleep in the cheap motels on the old high ways.
Bump
Some things that even poor people had in America, was the non-toll open highway, hunting and fishing, and the great outdoors and family camping.
People who couldn’t afford vacations, could actually have great, family bonding vacations, for basically the cost of gas for the car, and eggs in a cast iron skillet.
You can walk into it on the scenic ocean view trail from Mt. Tamalpais State Park which borders the Federal Park. The State Park has no fee.
I have had the pleasure of visiting Muir Woods on three occasions.I asked my wife to marry me there.
Lot of whiners demanding free stuff here.
I like fees — they’re riffraff repellent. I like having to pay a little extra, dress up a little, and behaving civil, if it separates me from complaining losers who think they’re entitled to have their “share”, without paying their share.
Most of the problems go away with a little social stratification.
Better to get married in the woods than, say, in New Jersey.
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