state parks often do, they are usually on the honor system and require you to put money in an envelope and put it in a drop box

Not if you have a library card! But the fees go to help keep them clean and well maintained, which they need more when they're used more. Of course they also get funding directly from taxes.

Why do you think its absurd?

There are states that don't charge for state parks?

One use of the taxes is to preserve the beauty and make it available to everyone except where it's too fragile.

A lot of the regulations exist to mitigate the evils caused by massive concentrations of humans, like air pollution.

But hey, you go ahead and stay where you are. That'll keep a place open for another of the many people who move away, experience life in those other states, and then come home again.

It's weird how you want the beauty, but don't seem to understand how it stays that way.

It's maintenance. It's user fees to fund maintenance.

You may think that's socialist, but really it's not. Proper socialism would be a portion of income tax being allocated toward funding a maintained park without added user fees for residents.

It's usually cheaper overall for people using the park, but people who don't use the park complain about their taxes being used to foot the bill; the same as they complain about paying for fire protection service they don't use.

Pls keep learning 😛

Ya room for improvement. Absurdly amazing when everything’s good (you have money near the coast but not near wildfires)