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frankenyoter

frankenyoter

No Rain, No Rainbow
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Mar 17, 2009
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Been going here a couple times each year for a few years. Rolled in Thursday to be told they just started charging for camping. $10 per night per tent. :poop:

I was even on their website Thursday morning and there was no mention of it... I almost argued the point, but didn't.

http://www.harlancountytrails.com/blackmountain-permits.php


She told us they had bath houses and such in the works... All there was different was two super ragged out porta-jons. Nuff said about that.

Oh, and we were roused Friday morning from our slumber a bit before 8 am to a dozer and a back hoe in front of the tents for about an hour and a half. I was pissed since we rolled into camp after an epic wrenchfest around 4am. To make it even better we were the only people there. If it is a campground shouldn't you get $10 worth of sleeping in the mud without heavy equipment?

Rant over...:fuck-you:
 
Be thankful you can still ride Harlan....$10 is nothing.
 
you are really seriously ranting over $10 to camp at Harlan?


You should say,"wow, i'm glad to pay whatever i have to pay to have a secured place to wheel, at least for the next 20 years or so..."

I'd pay twice that to camp in the mud, snow, rain, dust, at harlan, just to be there and able to enjoy wheeling there, dozers or not.

Id probably be happy they came by and woke me up, so i didn't over sleep and miss out on trail time.
 
I'll have to agree that $10 per night is silly. I hooked up a camper with fully utilities for $15 per night by the railroad tracks. I think they should try a little cheaper until they get the place fixed up. You should probably mention the heavy equipment to the appropriate people. I would bet they just simply overlooked the thought someone might be up that late and could have done other work. Maybe they can create a policy to start after 10am if there are tents?
 
I agree $10 isn't much. It's a free market... Possibly some enterprising folks will create a nicer campground with better amenities. There are always to local motels in town too...
 
"wow, i'm glad to pay whatever i have to pay to have a secured place to wheel, at least for the next 20 years or so..."


all it takes is for the right people to start complaining and it will be shut down, doesnt matter if the county, state, or feds have a lease on it or not.

that said, get a really big tent and you can sleep 10 people for ten dollars a night.
 
I'm not bitching about paying for camping. It is what it is. Everybody needs to make a dime. It is the fact that 3.5 hours after laying down I have a friggin dozer driving back and forth in front of my tent. I should have just slept on the side of the trail.

I will probably stay at the Harlan County Campground for $5 bucks more out of spite and give my dime to someone who wants return business.
 
frankenyoter said:
I'm not bitching about paying for camping. It is what it is. Everybody needs to make a dime. It is the fact that 3.5 hours after laying down I have a friggin dozer driving back and forth in front of my tent. I should have just slept on the side of the trail.
I will probably stay at the Harlan County Campground for $5 bucks more out of spite and give my dime to someone who wants return business.
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Here's a tip for clearly communicating your point: If you're bitching about bulldozers, open your comments with bitching about bulldozers. When you open your comments bitching about the measly $10 you had to pay to camp somebody might be under the impression that was your primary complaint.

But that said, yeah, the bulldozers are bullshit. I'm entirely in favor of paying to camp, becasue none of these places will be able to stay open if they don't make a profit, but you do at least need to get what you pay for.
 
I would say what ever the project they were working on, had been planned days or even weeks before. The folks on the payroll work a schedule kinda like you do where ever you work. For the most part most folks are out on the trail or at least up getting ready to go in the morning. Just because someone came in late I don't see that they should have to completely re-arrange their schedule waiting on someone to wake up.
The whole place used to be free, now it's not. Still $ for $, it's the best cheapest place you can go to wheel. and, it's getting better
 
It is the best bang for your offroading buck for sure and it does keep getting better. Trails are all marked better that ever before. They do have some platforms to place tents on near the mosquito pond too although I think they were in place during the fall. Although heavily used this was the first time I saw a Porta-Jon on site too.

The camp grounds are to the right on the main trail after passing the pay station. It starts across the creek from the maintenance shed and goes to about where Under Estimated starts.

I'm just a little frustrated that with 6000 acres to work on they chose to run the only two pieces of heavy equipment in front of the only people camping at 7:30 in the morning. I've never paid to camp before, I don't mind paying for camping. But with our group shelling out $100 to sleep in the mud I'd think that would get you till 8am at least before starting that crap up and driving back and forth. Lifes a bitch so who cares; move on and learn from your mistakes. Camping there was a mistake that I won't make again...

After it is all said and done, I will continue to wheel there a few times a year after buying a year-muiltivehicle pass. I will tell everyone I can to go there and wheel as well. It is a huge place that has something for everyone. Truely a Moab of the East.
 
frankenyoter said:
It is the best bang for your offroading buck for sure and it does keep getting better. Trails are all marked better that ever before. They do have some platforms to place tents on near the mosquito pond too although I think they were in place during the fall. Although heavily used this was the first time I saw a Porta-Jon on site too.
The camp grounds are to the right on the main trail after passing the pay station. It starts across the creek from the maintenance shed and goes to about where Under Estimated starts.
I'm just a little frustrated that with 6000 acres to work on they chose to run the only two pieces of heavy equipment in front of the only people camping at 7:30 in the morning. I've never paid to camp before, I don't mind paying for camping. But with our group shelling out $100 to sleep in the mud I'd think that would get you till 8am at least before starting that crap up and driving back and forth. Lifes a bitch so who cares; move on and learn from your mistakes. Camping there was a mistake that I won't make again...
After it is all said and done, I will continue to wheel there a few times a year after buying a year-muiltivehicle pass. I will tell everyone I can to go there and wheel as well. It is a huge place that has something for everyone. Truely a Moab of the East.
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really I am not trying to bust your balls I swear...but you camped across from the equipment shed. That is the home office of their trail work force. Ride on up to White tail and you could sleep til noon if you chose.
 
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