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As we travel we do see private parks expanding site sizes and upgrading 30 to 50A sites. Lots of them. Likely why we see nightly rates creeping up. Site size is not as difficult to deal with as internal roads within the park. Big dollars involved for all of that. We have also run across advertised big rig friendly Parks only to discover no tagalong or fifth Wheeler trash, or even Class Cs, allowed and they charge high rates to operate those parks. The good side for us, is every National Park we have visited, Yellowstone being an example, while none of the larger sites were often available within the park, there was a beautiful private park right outside the gate. County, COE, National Parks are generally cheaper than private parks. My view is that with the Federal Government facing an obscene budget deficit, campgrounds are not a high priority and expansion of capacity of Federal Campgrounds would result in rates being jacked up significantly to cover that effort, and rates end up higher than private parks.