Camping Fee at State Park is increased
The cost more this summer to camp at State Park in Illinois. The cost or price jump will be post an announcement or noticeable this holiday weekend. Eric Shangraw (one lawmaker) explains, the higher campground fees are outrageous.
From March through November, Sandy Prisby stays in her camper at Jubilee College Park. As a park host and volunteer, she gets a free spot. But she feels bad for the young families she have to collect higher campground fees from. The cost a night of the spot has jump from $15 to $20 with electricity. In holiday, the cost has doubled.
Prisby said “I’m especially feeling bad for the people that have been coming out here for years and people with small children. Those families are trying to stay close to home. But they come out here and find the rates are up. They get a little agitated. A lot of times it is their only form of recreation and with gas prices this high”.
Joyce Ernst, a camper, her reaction “The governor decided to be selfish. As far as I’m concerned, (he is) taking away the pleasure of what people enjoy”. The fees jumping to $30 a night, the worst sticker shock in coming holiday weekend. If you stay 3 days such as Friday, Saturday and Sunday it will cost you $90. A last year it was 45 bucks in 3 days.
The fee increases are outrageous and it the practice of jacking up fees to pay for other expenses is a hallmark of the Blagojevich Administration, it was said by David Leitch (Republican State Representative). The cost to camp has gone up and the staff at Jubilee has been cut. Last year or I think four years ago there were five park rangers and today there are three rangers, Leitch says.
Taxpayers are truly paying more to get less when camping at state parks in Illionois.
