Nice park, frustrating camp check in process
Cottonwood Canyon State Park的点评
点评:A beautiful scenic canyon, well maintained grounds, clean restrooms, nice trails. Very windy. Downside - using the campground. The reservation system makes it nearly impossible to get a space. All sites are reservation only, so if you just show up you have to use a weak wi-fi system (no cell service) to get on the park reservations system and find an unreserved spot. It is a very cumbersome system - seriously 11 "quiz" screens select the pictures with cars, bridges, bikes, etc. If you step out of the wi-fi zone and lose the signal you have to restart. And then although it was evening and half the campsites were empty, it only showed two sites available. Another camper trying to do this process at the same time as us gave up and left. We got a reservation for one night as there was nothing available for the second night. The next day there were still multiple empty spots; someone leaving told us he had reserved more than one site for friends who didn't show, but they were all leaving early so there were multiple reserved, already paid for sites. I suspect there are a lot of no-shows, and absolutely no first-come first-served pay-on-site system. The camp host would only refer us to the wi-fi kiosk. So beware....there are very few places to camp along that section of the scenic byway, The camp site booking and check-in system needs improvement.
翻译:风景秀丽的峡谷,场地维护良好,卫生间干净整洁,步道也很棒。风很大。缺点——营地的使用。预订系统几乎让预订不到位。所有营地都只接受预订,所以如果你刚到,就必须使用信号较弱的Wi-Fi(没有手机信号)才能登录公园预订系统,找到一个未被预订的营地。这个系统非常繁琐——11个“测试”屏幕会选择带有汽车、桥梁、自行车等的图片。如果你走出Wi-Fi区域并丢失信号,就必须重新启动。尽管当时已是晚上,一半的营地都空了,但系统只显示两个营地可用。另一个和我们同时尝试这样做的露营者放弃了,离开了。我们预订了一晚,因为第二天没有空位。第二天仍然有多个空位;有人离开时告诉我们,他为没来的朋友预订了不止一个营地,但他们都提前离开了,所以有多个已经预订并付款的营地。我怀疑有很多人没有出现,而且根本没有先到先得的现场付款系统。营地主人只会让我们去Wi-Fi亭。所以要注意……那段风景优美的小路边很少有露营的地方,营地预订和入住系统需要改进。