Tonto Forest revising fees
Mar. 23, 2006 12:00 AM
Camping and day-use fees in Tonto National Forest are changing, beginning Wednesday.
Fees for day-use sites and shoreline-access areas will increase from $4 per vehicle and $2 per watercraft to $6 per vehicle and $4 per watercraft.
These changes will affect recreation sites and campgrounds on the following lakes: Roosevelt, Apache, Canyon, Saguaro, Bartlett and Horseshoe, as well as the Seven Springs Recreation Area north of Cave Creek.
At the same time, fees at most campgrounds managed by the Tonto National Forest will change from a per-night charge to the same standard use fee of $6 per vehicle and $4 per watercraft.
In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
- John Stanley
I wonder if we'll get 4 of those Sacajawea $s now as change (when the machines work)
In addition, day-use fees at the popular Peralta and First Water trailheads in the Superstition Wilderness will be permanently eliminated at the end of April.
Well that's a little bit of good news. I'm not sure I understand it, though. Will there still be trailhead fees for overnight parking?
Nighthiker wrote:If the Fee demo kiosk worked at all, I would insert a $ 5 bill and receive a permit and 4 $ 1 coins at times.
That's a big if. When it doesn't work (as usual), I leave money under my windshield wiper in hopes that the kiosk people would get it first. I kind of doubt that ever happens.
Nighthiker wrote:If the Fee demo kiosk worked at all, I would insert a $ 5 bill and receive a permit and 4 $ 1 coins at times.
That's a big if. When it doesn't work (as usual), I leave money under my windshield wiper in hopes that the kiosk people would get it first. I kind of doubt that ever happens.
I think you would do better leaving a note on your dash saying that you tried to use the paystation and it wasn't working and you will put a check in the mail as soon as you get home. Then if you have a digital camera take a date stamped photo. If you do get a ticket you will beat it.
I think you would do better leaving a note on your dash saying that you
tried to use the paystation and it wasn't working and you will put a check in the mail as soon as you get home. Then if you have a digital camera take a date stamped photo. If you do get a ticket you will beat it. [/quote]
If it wasn't a rental car, I'd just scratch the note into the paint on my hood, because my wrist would tire from writing so many notes. I've said before, the kiosks might not be broken so often if ticketing didn't give the operators a financial incentive to leave them that way.
The fee stations worked erratically if at all. There was one time at FW TH where i put my $4 worth of quarters in, it spit out my ticket and gave me my $4 back. The people in line behind me put that $4 in and got their ticket and it spit the $4 back to them.......so it continued. We got 15-20 people in for FREE and I got my $4 back LOL
Better than Vegas!!!!!!!!!
Trish-Kabob
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I had that fee station problem just last weekend- cept it was the opposite! It took my four bucks and didn't give me a ticket at all. I figured it was out of paper.
I wrote a note and put it on my dash where it could be seen, explaining that I paid my four dollars but no ticket was given. I think there were alot of those notes on dashboards that day.
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