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Re: Recreation.gov

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Post by lancefisher »

dogecoinbase wrote: post #9
throwaway5752 wrote: post #8

Recreation.gov has been around for years and it doesn't seem to have been updated substantially recently. It's a great resource and I hope people use it to visit US wildlife areas, but I am curious why it has been submitted.

My hypothesis was that a lot of folks (myself included) have started going hiking/etc on Black Friday instead of participating in the commercial aspects of the day? Anyways, I upvoted. Our parks/wilderness are one of the really great things about America.

I really respect REI for closing their doors on Black Friday. https://www.rei.com/opt-outside

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#92

Post by m_t »

skbohra123 wrote: post #85
johnchristopher wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in the tourism industry and I try to stay up to date with other countries practices. What is your country ?

India

Is there a lot of recreational properties managed by the government in India? The only time I went there O mostly stayed at guest houses and hotels.

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#93

Post by brailsafe »

ben174 wrote: post #16

I worked in the bot defense space for quite some time, and it’s insane how much of the bot efforts were dedicated to getting camping spots. I’m happy to see this being recognized because I had many summers ruined because I couldn’t just get my old favorite camp spot.

Hang on. Is this hyperbole or are you saying you've actually had not one, but multiple summers ruined just because you could get a particular spot? Seems like too rigid a definition of a summer to enjoy the very nature of summer.

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#94

Post by Dowwie »

reagan83 wrote: post #18
ben174 wrote: post #16

I worked in the bot defense space for quite some time, and it’s insane how much of the bot efforts were dedicated to getting camping spots. I’m happy to see this being recognized because I had many summers ruined because I couldn’t just get my old favorite camp spot.

Can you elaborate? This sounds interesting...

The most coveted camp sites are booked months in advance on the day that the site becomes available. The days vary by park and by site. Individuals trying to plan a backpacking trip have to complete with outdoor adventure travel businesses trying to secure the best places. Park rangers are aware of the schemes and try to impose policies and procedures to promote fairness, since businesses will snipe first come first serve without hesitation if allowed to do so.

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#95

Post by rtpg »

baddox wrote: post #77
chrisseaton wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't they run a lottery rather than first-come-first-served on a website?

That doesn’t really obviate the need for a captcha, since the number of bots can be scaled arbitrarily high fairly easily.

Phone number deduplication is an easy way to increase cost on the spammers

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#96

Post by krilly »

mceoin wrote: post #48

So excited to see this on Hacker News! Brief Shoutout for anyone who would like to see a better online experience for our National Parks System: 1. write into rec.gov asking for a booking API! 2. join accessland.org 3. build apps using Rec.gov's availability API (disclaimer: I'm involved with accessland.org)

What with all the talk about bot abuse in this thread, an API may not be a good idea

Re: Recreation.gov

#97

Post by skbohra123 »

m_t wrote: post #92
skbohra123 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

India

Is there a lot of recreational properties managed by the government in India? The only time I went there O mostly stayed at guest houses and hotels.

There are definitely enough properties maintained by Indian and State governments here. Each state government has a tourism website where we can book some of these properties.

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#98

Post by sargram01 »

Has anyone ever been able to make a reservation on that site? Anytime I look at locations they’re either closed, or booked, or you have to plan a half year in advance.

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#100

Post by peller »

bitexploder wrote: post #73
ben174 wrote: post #16

I worked in the bot defense space for quite some time, and it’s insane how much of the bot efforts were dedicated to getting camping spots. I’m happy to see this being recognized because I had many summers ruined because I couldn’t just get my old favorite camp spot.

In my experience many of the best camp sites I have been to have been in federal forest land on forest roads. The tougher the road the better (limits traffic). I have found some amazing places in Colorado that you could never reserve and they don’t exist as official camp sites. You find a good spot and you camp. Camp grounds with packed in sites are... good for some things. I acknowledge this is a problem for some hi…

I've had this experience out west too. But anecdotally at least, these spots can be harder to find on the east coast.
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