Looks like years of under investment on the summit are catching up.
https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news...cle_5138027e-ebe1-11ea-8a69-23480fad08d0.html
https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news...cle_5138027e-ebe1-11ea-8a69-23480fad08d0.html
Great. Now I'm going to have to carry my license plate up.
More seriously, I suspect the end result would be somewhat higher pressure on Lakes. Little of the road and cog crowd would go down there, but it may change the "long stop of the day" for hikers.
Now us motorcycle riders can now be part of the ultra light crowd. Since are licence plates are smaller and therefore lighter.
So to fill up water bottles, use the bathrooms, buy a soda, mail a letter, etc. etc., it's going to cost me $5?
Does the public benefit from the telecom and transmitter equipment? Or is it all privately owned and operated? Asking for a friend...
So to fill up water bottles, use the bathrooms, buy a soda, mail a letter, etc. etc., it's going to cost me $5?
... They worked hard to create a funding model in 'the NH way'. ... Times nonetheless changed out of necessity and "fees" now abound.
Well said. Time to kick out Jeb and put ChrisB in charge. I really like this as a very reasonable and sane solution. It's not like The Rockpile is the only place that could charge admission. $5 bucks times 10 = $50. Like most hikers are up there 10 times a year? If your like me the last 3-4 decades I have actually been avoiding the place. If $5 is a problem the one time chance you have to pay it then so be it.It is certainly worth remembering that the Summit is indeed a NH State Park. And as such charging an entrance fee is reasonable. The Cog and Auto Road can easily bake such a fee into their charges. But what to do about hikers????
In a prefect and well-funded world maybe hikers would not have to pay. In the real world in which our under-funded state parks operate hikers should pay.
You do so to climb Katahdin in Baxter Park. Why not Mt Washington?
The irony of the Live Free or Die state is that due to its funding model nothing is ever really "free."
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