[quasse]

Yellowstone is truly the worst for this. It's an extremely fragile natural wonder populated by some of the most disrespectful tourists the world can offer.

I actually cannot conceive of how the park rangers there manage to keep their cool day after day.

[heelix]

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area has some of the same issues. Campsites inside an 'easy to get to' area are just stripped. Trees cut down, bark stripped off of trees, the fire pit seating hacked at, and food stuffs from washing on the shore.

The forest service ends up digging the toilets out of some really rough pickaxe type terrain, since most of it is a thin layer of soil over the glacier carved granite. God help the poor soul who dumps trash in the outhouse and gets caught.

[hammock]

IMO that situation is not exactly ideal, but it is campsites working as intended. They concentrated the human impact into a small, actively managed area.

[vram22]

Why do they allow it at all? Are there no rules or laws that they can invoke / enforce for this?