My issue with ticketed entry is NOT that this is being done to reduce transmission of Covid. It is that the pandemic is possibly being used as a reason to start a permanent reservation system that is NOT going to go away when the pandemic is no longer a threat. As I said, the idea of entry reservations has been tossed around for at least 30 years, but has always been canned because it is a fundamentally unpopular idea. However, I fear that the NPS is using Covid to get their ‘foot in the door’ (so to speak).
Maybe they have discussed it for years, but the reservation system enabled by Recreation.gov has just now become feasible. I am betting that we will continue to see some form of it from now on.
