Backpacking America: City Campgrounds
I tweetered today about this idea if city campgrounds. I had this idea a long ways back ago. But I kinda was reminded of it because I saw a picture of the whole "Occupy" thing. So yes yes... I know that is very important and all that but I'm not going to write about that. I'm going to just lay out my idea real quick for the city camping thing because I think it's a neat idea and I think it would be cool if it existed in society. I'm pretty sure I haven't written about this yet anywhere. I maybe have told some people randomly but I don't think I really put it out there....
Ok here it is:
My question is why does camping have to ONLY be all rustic in the middle of no where? Why can't we have campgrounds in cities!?
Why not have a small area in each city that has camping spots? It can even be semi wooded and it can have security people to protect and make sure things are A-OK. You can have like check in points and buy passes and let's see what else...
I think it would be neat to have bathroom and shower facilities (and by neat I mean... mandatory... each individual spot has a potty and waterhouse AKA shower). There could also be a place for having a fire and sitting around with new people you don't know and meeting new people and making new friends.
I think it should be maybe 5 or 10 dollars a night per spot to set up a tent. The max stay will be 3 nights. I think that perhaps every city should have one and they can all be linked together as part of the national parks service. The idea would be that it's kind of like the ozark trail... ooops sorry that's walmart... I mean the Appalachian trail. So you would start in one city and then every day or two or three hop on a train/bus and onward to the next city. Maybe make it one big loop so you can start in your hometown city and then make your way around the country over the spring summer fall. Maybe have loops within the big loop so that if you wanted to do a winter loop in the south... or have it regional.
This could even be marketed to the rest of the world as "Backpack America". So maybe it could bring in tourists from all around the world to the states. So much like people backpack Europe and stay in hostels... the traditional american.. errrr... tradition... is to go camping! So instead of hostels we have campgrounds.
Maybe during the winter they could be covered in giant dome canopies and heated or something? Really I'm just playing around with an idea... but I think it would be AWESOME to travel the country with just a backpack and a tent and be able to know that each stop along the way in each city you don't have to worry about where you are going to stay. You can just book a pass and it can include: train/bus and a camping spot.
Maybe it's a weird idea... but I still think it would be different and interesting. And I mean if you get sick of camping you are just a stones throw away from a nice stay in a 20 thousand thread sheet count hotel bed...
Then it's back to "Roughing it".
Also... every camp site would come with complimentary s'mores!
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