Labor Day Weekend

We were pretty busy for Labor Day Weekend. The campground didn't fill up, but it was still pretty busy. On Sunday our Day Use Area was pretty full with people grilling, picnicking, and walking their dogs.

I worked in the fee booth Sunday and Monday mornings; Monday most people that came in just wanted to use the dump station!

I also walked through the campground all three days--Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, picking up litter and checking everything out. I found one fire that hadn't been put out all the way. The ashes were still hot, so I walked over and got a bucket of water for it.

Picking up litter. For some reason, this is one of my favorite things to do in the campground, and throughout the park. I like catching the small, hard-to-see litter like nut shells (they don't decompose in this desert environment), food scraps (same as nut shells), those little square plastic things that come on loaves of bread and packages of hamburger buns...things like that. I know visitors appreciate a clean campsite, just like I do when I go camping!

Most trash that I pick up is cigarette butts. I'm not sure why, but people tend to put all their garbage, including cigarette butts into the fire rings! It is better than leaving trash spread around the campsite and throughout the campground, but if you pay $15-$17 for a campsite, I would expect to find a garbage-free campfire ring! This is one thing that really bothers me when we go camping...

More cigarette butts...and yes, I do take the time to stand there and clean them all out of the fire rings! (Time consuming, but worth it!)

I also found several sites with used toilet paper (yup) around the perimeter of the site, and hidden back in the sagebrush. I did not take a picture of that....you're welcome.....