Campground Etiquette

We where at Yellowstone in the Canyon CG for a week prior to going on a week long backcountry horse pack trip, which was awesome. We had a large family pull in across from us and as soon as truck was turned off the father gave kids ax and saw and they proceeded to cut down live and dead trees in the campground. Needless to say we were dumbfounded while my girlfriend filmed this I went to find a ranger which took about an hour. Ranger finally showed up came to our site and watched this family cut down the CG. I asked what he would do and ranger responded that he could cite them, kick them out of park, talk to them and let them off if they did not know the rules, which is what he ended up doing, but being the kind of person I am before he did that I asked him if he pulled me over driving in park and I was drinking a beer and smoking pot would he just explain rules to me if I stated that I did not know that was against park regulations, he did not respond but just gave me a dirty look and went over to talk to Paul Bunyon and his family.

I thought I was the only one who had noisy camp neighbors. I really prefer weekday and out-of-season camping. No kids, few dogs and lots empty sites. Kids screaming and screeching & dogs barking and yapping drives me up a wall.

Originally posted by mtbmitch Another reason to dry camp and find an out of the way spot. Generators and people blasting their music hinder relaxing. Luckly here in Idaho there are places to escape. Though the fed gov't is doing their best to burn down our state.

I was there 3 years ago and just about everywhere I went there was a fog of various densities, except it wasn't fog, it was smoke. 

TT

Regarding generators, I was a long time tent camper and I used to have great disdain for them.  Now I he one.  The reality is that there are so many more RVs out there now than there used to be that most campgrounds cater to RVs and RVs and generators go together.  The NP campgrounds I mostly go to have areas for, or not for, generators and they have generator hours.  I always try to avoid spots near tents when I can.  (I'm not a big fan of the reservation system the NPs all seem to have bought into.)  Sometimes you get put next to whoever made the previous reservation.

I have tent-camped in non-generator areas and had neighbors way noisier and much more obnoxious than someone next door with a cheap million dB generator too.
 
I think people need to be sensitive to their neighbors, whether it's about dogs or generators or whatever. 

TT

No problem on agreeing to disagree, but depending on where you go camping, generators are among the things we have to deal with, like them or not.  People camp for a lot of reasons, and have a lot of styles of camping.  Some people have generators, some have dogs or motorcycles, some have kids.  Some have boomboxes, guitars, or loud drunk friends.  Many have various combinations of those, and other annoyances.  Some people don't even like camper trailers.  To each is own.

TT