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Re:All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday by int_19h on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:18PM (#18419727)
If you want to see something closer to "absolutely democratic", look e.g. at British Columbia, where all provincial parks are free to enter. They still have a permit system and fees, but only for overnight camping; if you just want to come and walk and enjoy the surroundings during the day, it costs nothing.

Curiously, the provincial govt tried to introduce an access fee a few years ago, and there was a huge pushback from the citizenry.

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Re:All U.S. National Parks Are Free to Enter on Sunday by eigenvector on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:51AM (#18420518)
The elimination of day use or parking fees in BC parks coincided with a significant reduction of their budgets - after all, much of their money was from those user fees - and since then trails and infrastructure have been left to crumble. And that's to say nothing of the lack of resources for staff - in 2016 there were just seven park rangers in the entire province[1]. You can see more than seven rangers in one room if you walk into a Yosemite or Yellowstone visitor centre. That's not democracy - it's just neglect.

[1]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-parks-ran...

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