Memorial weekend was so busy, the campground was full. With around 400+ people here it was fairly quiet. Not a lot of kids, so we weren't listening to a lot of screaming and yelling, but there were a lot of dogs. (not my favorite thing) Dogs were barking all the time, day and night.
Friday night there was an accident on the edge of the park. Three teenagers were going to fast and missed a corner and rolled their car. Injuries not too bad. On Monday night there was an accident in the canyon. Someone was going too fast through one of the creeks and lost control and went off the road and hit 2 children. The park manager called Vern at 7:10 and asked him to come to the entrance to canyon road. When we got there he told us about the accident and had us stay at the entrance and not let anyone into the canyon. I bet we turned at least 50 cars away. Vern was watching the gate and I was turning the cars away. Everyone wanted to know why the canyon was closed and how long it would be closed. I'm not sure why they thought I would know how long it would be closed. Everyone was nice about the how thing, until channel 8 news showed up. I told the reporter what I had been telling everyone, the canyon was closed because of an accident. He said it was state property and I couldn't stop him. I told him I was sorry, but we were not to let anyone drive into the canyon. Then he wants to talk to someone in authority and I told him they were all at the accident site. I told him if he wanted to walk down he could, but he couldn't drive down. He wasn't happy about that, but said he would walk. I told Vern about the reporter and we decided to call Andy (the park manager) and ask him what he wanted us to do about the reporter. He told us we could let him drive down. When I told him he could drive down he said he didn't want to be argumentative, but he had a job to do. I told him I understood that, but we were only doing what we were told to do. We were there for about an hour and a half. Andy said the kids weren't too badly hurt. What a relief. I had goose bumps every time I had to tell someone about the accident.
Last week we had a couple on a tent site that didn't put a registration card on the post. ($11 for a tent site) I had told them to register, the park ranger had told them to register, and the other host had told them to register. Every time they said they would. The next day the other host saw them packing up to leave and called the park ranger. Mark come right over and talked to them and gave them a chance to pay. They said they didn't have any money, so Mark gave them a ticket for failure to pay. The ticket was for $78. An expensive night of camping.
We never know what is going to happen in the campground.
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