Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker

• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It depends. Generally speaking they’re free. I was told by a ranger at the Great Smokey Mountains National Park that they don’t enforce (or at least specifically weren’t that day) parking passes and only give people courtesy notices to pay for parking. They were only ticketing people parking in places that weren’t actual parking spots or blocking areas.

  Generally speaking I think you can expect to pay about $5 on average, some places maybe more (like if it’s a trail in a city, then parking is usually more costly). But in tons of places it’s just totally free.

  My point is that anon thinking he was being used was hilarious.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I get the point about it being a cheap activity in general, but aside from parking, who do pay the money to? Is there like a ticket-booth at the start of some trail which you couldn’t reasonably get to walking from other places?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some places use an honesty system where you drop money into a box and get a thing to put on your dash. Other places have a gate house or booth where you can pay.

      You aren’t forbidden from walking in. It’s usually just not a practical choice. Usually trails are in very remote places so you’d probably walk further than the length of the trail to get to it lol. Other places which are in more urban environments (like a trail through a city or places like Stone Mountain Georgia) might have easy places to park and walk in but it’s technically private property. And again, still usually just extra walking. For things like bike trails this is more viable probably.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In Finland there is no trespassing on private property. Well, not if it’s not gated or your yard or something. And you can’t gate large pieces of land like that, so…

        I understand that the nature is very different, for instance we have no mountains. So for me, I’m just thinking “just use another road”, but some places just have one road going there, I guess. Here, I’ll show my point:

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        I’ve highlighted the parks in yellow. Kansallispuisto = national park, luonnonpuisto = “nature park” (which sounds silly, I hear it). My point is that the trails in those areas start from a few places, and going to the national park, there’s several parkin places you can go to, and you can get to the areas from so many different places. And this isn’t a national park that requires any park rangers. I don’t even know if we have any, but if we do, they’re in the national parks which are up North in Lapland. This is a very small one. Just a big marsh with a lake in the center, essentially.

        So you couldn’t really set up a gatehouse or a booth anywhere there.

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  • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The smokey mountains is strictly enforcing parking passes now anywhere without the park. They will tow vehicles and mail you the fee without question if you dont have a pass.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was in November 2023. It may have just been that day or it may have changed since then.

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