Hodgdon Meadow Campground

Asks the National Park Service to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up, and to post what that share is.

Subject Hold back a share of sites at Hodgdon Meadow Campground for campers who drive up

To the National Park Service, Yosemite National Park:

I tried to camp at Hodgdon Meadow Campground in California and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 104 of the 108 campsites the agency files at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 104 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hodgdon Meadow Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m asking for one specific thing: set aside a published share of the sites at Hodgdon Meadow Campground as first-come, first-served, and post what that share is so it can be checked.

Somebody who drives up has no way in, and no way to find out whether they might have had one.

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Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, Yosemite National Park, California

Dear Tom McClintock,

I’m a constituent in California’s 5th district. I tried to camp at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, Yosemite National Park, California, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 104 of the 108 campsites the agency files at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 104 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hodgdon Meadow Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Hodgdon Meadow Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

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Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, Yosemite National Park, California

Dear Adam B. Schiff,

I’m a constituent in California. I tried to camp at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, Yosemite National Park, California, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 104 of the 108 campsites the agency files at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 104 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hodgdon Meadow Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Hodgdon Meadow Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

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Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.

Subject Walk-up camping at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, Yosemite National Park, California

Dear Alex Padilla,

I’m a constituent in California. I tried to camp at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, Yosemite National Park, California, and couldn’t.

recreation.gov lists 104 of the 108 campsites the agency files at Hodgdon Meadow Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 104 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked.

1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hodgdon Meadow Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule.

I’m not asking you to run Hodgdon Meadow Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund.

The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them.

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