This letter from RVer Arlyn Kraft was posted on the RVtravel.com Facebook page. We are posting it here to for a wider audience:
This concerns our recent stay in Arizona's Catalina state park. We have stayed in this park for the last 11 years with no complaints and have always been impressed by the excellent park staff especially the volunteers. This January we stayed for approximately three weeks using the advance online registration system. No problem.
Upon our return in March for a one week stay we were checked in by staff with no problems as has been the case for the last 11 years. We have always had the same equipment -- toy hauler and truck plus a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle or more recently a Class A motorhome and tow vehicle with the motorcycle in the back.
On the second day of the most recent stay we were stopped at the gate while returning on the cycle and asked to pay $15 additional for the cycle. We have never before been asked to pay this in the past 11 years in any Arizona state park nor is such a charge indicated on the online system registration process. We have NEVER been asked at the gate upon arrival if we had a cycle.
Our understanding of this is that if one arrives in an Arizona state park with a motorcycle as a third vehicle on site you are not welcome unless you pay $25 for car and RV plus $15 per cycle. That's $560 for two people for a two week stay.
This fee should be part of the online registration process or at the very least at the gate. I might add that I have never seen a Harley or Gold Wing drive anywhere in an Arizona state park except to the exit and return to their site after a day of touring.
3 comments:
Seems strange to charge extra for the motorcycle.
We encountered that at one park where we were told that as long as the cycle stays up on the rack, we don't have to pay an extra fee. But once it is down entering and exiting the park, it's subject to a sticker fee just like any other licensed vehicle. Strange, hey?
But in Wisconsin, when you register at the State Forests, you are automatically given 2 vehicle stickers along with your camping fee all for one price. Nothing additional. Very nice!
What next? Bicycles, motorized wheelchairs?
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