ETAV8R
Senior Member
This would be terrible but I can imagine it happening. Some wonderful evenings have been spent camped at Homestake.ski3pin said:...
The Racetrack is a famous feature of Death Valley National Park. People want to see it. Local communities demand that it stay open to bring in the tourist dollars. The solution at the Racetrack will be to bring in more public with management. The road will be paved. There will be designated parking places and only that number will be allowed on the road at one time. No one can be on the Racetrack at night expect on those few nights a year when a ranger leads a night tour. A separate fee will be charged to walk out on the playa. The park concessionaire will operate a bus tour. An example of this style of management can be seen with Red Meadows Road in the Mammoth Lakes area in the eastern Sierra.
There is nothing we can do about our skyrocketing population except face the facts.
Was vandalism the main reason for the shuttles to Reds Meadow?
What about a boulder border blocking the most accessible entries to the playa and a camera at the north and south entries along the road with one more camera high up somewhere to survey the entire playa. That would be three cameras, only two of which would need to be high quality to capture license plates in and out. Invasion of privacy? Maybe. But this is a National Park and rules change when one chooses to enter.