This memorial day weekend it would be pretty cool to go to a state park and just chill, wouldn't it?
WRONG, BITCHES! For you see, this mother fuckin' State Park be closed!
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- State parks officials have announced plans to close 70 parks due to the budget deficit.How fucked up is that. Even more so because by closing state parks you give families and tourist one less thing to go and spend their money on. Yeah, that's right. People actually spend their money on state parks.
The closures will translate to a $11 million reduction for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, and another $22 million the next year.
Officials say parks were chosen based on attendance rates and historical significance.
A lot of local economies are dependent on the money generated by tourist coming to their nowhere hick towns next to the state parks. A lot of visitors are from out of state, so you're essentially taking something that doesn't necessarily take much to keep running and you close it down.
So what's the full list of park closures? Here you go, from the parks department:
- Anderson Marsh SHP
- Annadel SP
- Antelope Valley Indian Museum
- Austin Creek SRA
- Bale Grist Mill SHP
- Benbow Lake SRA
- Benicia Capitol SHP
- Benicia SRA
- Bidwell Mansion SHP
- Bothe-Napa Valley SP
- Brannan Island SRA
- California Mining & Mineral Museum
- Candlestick Point SRA
- Castle Crags SP
- Castle Rock SP
- China Camp SP
- Colusa-Sacramento River SRA
- Del Norte Coast Redwoods SP
- Fort Humboldt SHP
- Fort Tejon SHP
- Garrapata SP
- George J. Hatfield SRA
- Governor's Mansion SHP
- Gray Whale Cove SB
- Greenwood SB
- Grizzly Creek Redwoods SP
- Hendy Woods SP
- Henry W. Coe SP
- Jack London SHP
- Jug Handle SNR
- Leland Stanford Mansion SHP
- Limekiln SP
- Los Encinos SHP
- Malakoff Diggins SHP
- Manchester SP
- McConnell SRA
- McGrath SB
- Mono Lake Tufa SNR
- Morro Strand SB
- Moss Landing SB
- Olompali SHP
- Palomar Mountain SP
- Petaluma Adobe SHP
- Picacho SRA
- Pio Pico SHP
- Plumas-Eureka SP
- Point Cabrillo Light Station
- Portola Redwoods SP
- Providence Mountains SRA
- Railtown 1897 SHP
- Russian Gulch SP
- Saddleback Butte SP
- Salton Sea SRA
- Samuel P. Taylor SP
- San Pasqual Battlefield SHP
- Santa Cruz Mission SHP
- Santa Susana Pass SHP
- Shasta SHP
- South Yuba River SP
- Standish-Hickey SRA
- Sugarloaf Ridge SP
- Tomales Bay SP
- Tule Elk SNR
- Turlock Lake SRA
- Twin Lakes SB
- Weaverville Joss House SHP
- Westport-Union Landing SB
- William B. Ide Adobe SHP
- Woodson Bridge SRA
- Zmudowski SB
Which it seems is all to it. The ranger lowers an impenetrable wooden beam across the parking lot entrance and declares that THIS PARK IS HEREBY CLOSED-OSED-OSED-OSED *flips window sign to "closed", gets in Jetta and drives home*
It sure must be nice to be a park ranger. Living in a trailer in a national park sounds really peaceful. But yeah, it seems like just national parks and passport issuers would be majorly effected by this.
Essentially I would suggest going to a state park, closed or not, this holiday weekend and enjoying the beauty that is summer in the outdoors.
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