For those of us who have no idea where you are talking about

please amend the title to show the state this place is in.

even so it is not right that primitive(I assume) camping areas are attracting fees more like a full service cp with bells and whistles.

frank

Hey EVERY STATE park in Victoria now attracts a Camping Fee.. $34 seem to be the minimum that is being charged...

Vic Government thought they would be smart and Put a fee on camping.. no daily fee's just camping fee's.. because they need to raise revenue because of a cut to the Park's Budget....

EVERY Vic household Pays an Annual once of Yearly fee of about $100 or so PER household...

So take a guess at how many Millions they collect..

Juergen

Daryl620 wrote:

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Who actually owns our state parks, we pay for upkeep though taxes, now a high fee to camp.....

http://www.parkstay.vic.gov.au/mount-buangor-state-park

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 And an extra $1.90 per night during school holidays.

Aussie Paul. 

When the current state government decided to either introduce fees to previously free parks or increase fees to parks which were already charging, they knew full well that a great number of regular users would stop frequenting those parks.

The only obvious reason for doing what they did was to justify a possible sell off to the private sector. There are already many examples of parks around the country that have private enterprise putting up all sorts of up market eco tents etc on land that used to be for ALL Victorians. The latest disgrace is down on the Peninsula where the Point Nepean park is to be largely turned over for a hotel/spa and restaurant.

The nonsense that we were all fed at the time by the government was that they were going to "enhance the experience" of camping in our great National Parks and this would require a large injection in funds. As a result of the increases, we have found a huge backlash from campers and our experience is that whenever we have gone for a look just to see how it's working for them, we have found virtually nobody staying.

Thankfully, we have found any number of brilliant free camps many with far better facilities than most State Parks and we'll continue to boycott places that really would prefer we went elsewhere.

As an interstate travellor , I will just go somewhere else. Pity, cos I like some places in Vic. Bill

We really need to keep our local MP's letterbox filled to overflowing with complaints.

I wrote to the victorian minister responsible for this portfolio, but recieved the standard buck-passing response.

It's said that one letter represents a thousand or so of the public who don't have the time to write.

It's easy to do with the internet, these days, so why don't we all take the iniative, and do it....I know the process is already well and truly underway, and is now probably not reversible, but I think it's still worth expressing our anger.

I'll try to get the internet address, and the minister's name, and post it for those who wish to use it....