The state is ruining my "experience" yet again (Camping restrictions)

[GilpinGuy]

100 points.

No emoji?

[Irving]

100 points is way better than an emoji.

[GilpinGuy]

[jerrymrc]

We used to camp at the Buffalo Creek Gun Club for almost 10 years. Then the USFS said they were going to raise the rent from a few hundred to many thousand $$$ per year unless we opened to the public. They then said nobody could camp there. It was stupid. I hate campgrounds and we always dry camped for a week at a time. I used to pull the camper up there in OCT every year to spend a week by myself to sort life out. We sold the camper a year later. Fuck them.

[arbol]

I might camp.

You might camp! Suppose 100 people camp!

Dude, I just want to camp.

[GilpinGuy]

There's just too many damn people here now. Ruined a lot of the whole "Colorado experience" for outdoorsy folks.

I never paid to camp in CO until a few years ago......at places that were "dispursed" camping areas before (was that even a term a few years ago?). My brother and I would get in the old VW camper van and just start driving in a general direction, look at a map for a potentially good spot to fish, find a fire road in the area and just set up. Great memories.

Good hunting spots are now full of drunken idiots partying all night, fucking the whole area. 4x4 trails shut down. Morons walking right into your fishing lane. Hippies starting fires every year. The list goes on.

Sad, but everyone wants to be the last one to move to a cool place.

[CapLock]

If you are dispersed camping it makes it hard for the fish cop to find you. They are hard up for money as it is. Now if you would all just camp in designated areas together it makes it so much easier for them to find you and write tickets.

[Alpine]

I have to drive by a spot in the National Forest to get to my place. It's a popular place to camp. Just about every time someone camps there, they leave litter lying around when they leave, bottles and cans in the fire ring, and/or fire still burning. This last Summer was the worst I've seen it. Idiots left containers of used oil, oil filters, etc. I'm thinking, WTF, did they go camping and change their oil while there? I don't understand why they can't haul their crap back to the big city?

I wish the USFS would shut it down so I don't have to clean up after the bastards anymore.