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Lostby7 18 years, 6 months ago.
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Just a poll to see what ya all think about increasing trail fees from 15 to 20 bucks.
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I not sure I know enough to make a educated vote. The trails that I have seen only require the pass for those who are doing activities such as horseback riding, ATV, Bicycle, Cross country skiing to just name a few. I have yet to come across one that had a fee just for normal walking. How many and where are these trails that require a fee for those walking?
@pcfrog wrote:
I not sure I know enough to make a educated vote. The trails that I have seen only require the pass for those who are doing activities such as horseback riding, ATV, Bicycle, Cross country skiing to just name a few. I have yet to come across one that had a fee just for normal walking. How many and where are these trails that require a fee for those walking?
Yep same here which is why I haven’t voted on this…I know of only trails which to bike on you must pay a yearly fee (which I’m against).
I guess I agree with PC Frog and Lostby7 on this. Could we get more information before we decide on what stance the WGA should take?
Here’s a thought that maybe nobody would agree with. Maybe they should require a pass for all trail users, not just bikers/skiers/equestrians. I’ve never understood why a skier/biker would put any more wear on those crushed limestone trails than a hiker. (Horses and snowmobiles obviously do more damage, IMHO.) I believe these fees were originally put in place to maintain mountain bike trails (like the Muir system in SKMSF) where bikers do add more wear to the trails and skiers get grooming. The rec trails somehow got lumped in with those systems. If the state needs more money to maintain these traFor me, the only problem would be the inconvenience of needing to buy a pass every year, just like the state parks pass.
While I understand that nobody wants to spend money, if we want to play our game on their land, we have to be willing to share in the cost of the upkeep.
Bump the parks fee up a buck and lump the trails money into the parks fees budget. I hate paying two fees for what I consider to be the same thing.
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