Shannon Skinner (she/her)A whole lot of people who have camping reservations at National Parks this summer are in for a big surprise.
The camp sites are so popular that I'm typically fighting to book a site this time of year for a slot in August. It is a cutthroat endeavor. Most of the sites over the summer have already been booked.
A single tent site with no power or water hookups, no reliable source of drinking water, and pit toilets at Panorama Point Campground in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest costs $48 per night. There is still ridiculous demand.
If it's true that the Rump Administration has rescinded all job offers for national park employees, there won't be anyone there to clean and supply the pit toilets and oversee reservations.
*If* the parks stay open, it will be total chaos and the overflowing pit toilets will be a disease vector.
If they close, I can't imagine the mass numbers of reservations that will need to be canceled and refunds issued. Not to mention the economic devastation to nearby towns whose businesses rely on the summer travel season.
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