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Originally Posted by Sliver
Did you just make that up? Is that what you want it to be?
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The national parks are here for our enjoyment. It's your mistake to think we roped off a bunch of our most beautiful land and are trying to keep people out. Parks Canada's mandate is to share our Parks with Canadians and the world. They actually want and encourage people to come, enjoy and appreciate our parks.
It's hard to enjoy and appreciate the parks when they're full and they turn you away when you arrive. We need another town.
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When has the park ever turned anyone away. They even have overflow camping areas for you to sleep in your car/tent/trailor if you get there and all the campgrounds are full.
What does the new town give you?
If you assume as you seem to that demand greatly outstrips supply then pricing won't go down significantly as a result of the new supply. So Hotel Costs are unlikely to go down and there is hotel availability on weekdays in the bow valley. So really we are talking about weekend capacity.
With Campgrounds again weekends are booked out but there is weekday availability in the campgrounds on a day of basis. Restaurants aren't hard to get into.
Expanding availability isn't going to improve weekend availability, it will still just fill up and you will still have weekday vacancy. It will just make crowding worse at the attractions within the park on weekends. Building attractions and facilities outside of the parks. New provincial parks in various areas would be a far better use of funds than a new town at Castle Junction.
Does anyone think that Lake Minniwanka, Moraine, Lake Louise, Johnson Canyon, or the ice fields need more people at them? This is the result of town expansion. It doesn't reduce crowding in the Banff townsite, in increases crowding elsewhere as a result of increased visitation.