Free camping sites for travellers provide a proven economic boost to regional towns. But is it enough to justify the mess left behind?
A WA council is looking to scrap its overnight camping for RV users because people have been leaving behind rubbish and human waste.The economic flow-on to the economy outweighs these issues, and other councils are learning to live with the issues.
"Basically what he means is the money we don't spend on campgrounds he can spend on fishing gear," Jess Bornikhof added. Free camp sites are one of the major things Queensland family the Bornikhof's look for when travelling in their RV.The Shire of Waroona is considering scrapping free camping at Preston Beach, one-and-a-half hours south of Perth, and has already stopped allowing campers at Drakesbrook Weir.
"There have been conversations with the rangers who monitor that and we have to continue to make sure people are doing the right thing," he said. "You can have 100 people doing the right thing and one person doing the wrong thing, and the most noise will be made about the people doing the wrong thing.
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