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Al_HikesAZ
Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 263 Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 8:45 am Post subject: Tonto Forest revising fees |
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From this morning's AZ Republic. Don't shoot, I'm just the messenger.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0323fees0323.html
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Tonto Forest revising fees
Mar. 23, 2006 12:00 AM
Camping and day-use fees in Tonto National Forest are changing, beginning Wednesday.
Fees for day-use sites and shoreline-access areas will increase from $4 per vehicle and $2 per watercraft to $6 per vehicle and $4 per watercraft.
These changes will affect recreation sites and campgrounds on the following lakes: Roosevelt, Apache, Canyon, Saguaro, Bartlett and Horseshoe, as well as the Seven Springs Recreation Area north of Cave Creek.
At the same time, fees at most campgrounds managed by the Tonto National Forest will change from a per-night charge to the same standard use fee of $6 per vehicle and $4 per watercraft.
In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
- John Stanley |
I wonder if we'll get 4 of those Sacajawea $s now as change (when the machines work). _________________ Anyone can make a hike harder. The skill comes in making it easier. Dosatéhigo nasádo |
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whereveriroam
Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 205 Location: Chandler,AZ
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 10:13 am Post subject: |
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I think that's good news that the fee boxes at the trailheads are getting eliminated. I always thought it as a rip-off to have to pay to park your vehicle. $4 and no valet or security! |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Sounds good to me, I agree you shouldn't have to pay to park somewhere. I don't mind paying for place that has facilities like the White Tanks or the Grand Canyon, but just to park in a lot I do not like. |
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Daryl
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 1168 Location: Everett, Washington
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 10:59 am Post subject: |
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In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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_________________ It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
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Tom Treks Gear Addict
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3347
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Those things barely worked anyways. They were probably paying out more in machine maintenance than what they were collecting. Good news though. Frequent those trailheads often. |
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Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Daryl wrote: |
In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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What's a fee? You mean I was supposed to PAY all this time?
As HIG said.......those boxes never worked anyway. I recall one time where it took all my money and spit out the ticket AND the money. So I gave it to the person after me in line, who gave it to the person after them in line. We all got in for free and I got my $4 back!
I thought I was in Vegas.
_________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." ďż˝ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: Tonto Forest revising fees |
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al1inaz wrote: |
In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
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I, for one, will be sad to see these things go. I have hit better jackpots at these two trailheads than at the local casinos. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 3/23/2006, 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Trishness wrote: |
Daryl wrote: |
In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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What's a fee? You mean I was supposed to PAY all this time?
As HIG said.......those boxes never worked anyway. I recall one time where it took all my money and spit out the ticket AND the money. So I gave it to the person after me in line, who gave it to the person after them in line. We all got in for free and I got my $4 back!
I thought I was in Vegas.
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Free in Vegas? That ain't how all these building got so tall and shiny. LOL. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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