I’ve come to learn that if a couple people are wrong, it’s on them, but if it’s a lot of people, it’s the system.
They could have taken advantage of this and run a paid shuttle or guided hikes or sold timed tickets to limit the number of people per hour, etc. Maybe only charge people who live outside the region, or offer tickets for a suggested donation.
I’m not saying it needs to be merchandised with a gift shop. The point is, there’re a ton of creative ways to limit the number of tourists in that spot at one time with a side effect of revenue to pay for the extra load on public services. But instead they just throw up their hands?
Sounds like a missed opportunity. There are a ton of way dumber things people flock to see. I would think public interest in forest art installations is something that should be encouraged.
I agreed with you before reading the article, but it turns out it’s on private property. So no transport infrastructure, and the property owners would have had to shell out a while bunch from their own pockets to do anything.
They also tried putting up signs and hoping visitors would self regulate, but that obviously didn’t work out. Hard to blame anybody except selfish assholes in this case.
Aww crap. My bad. I’ll put away my pitch fork.
No no, you deserve a stabbing for not reading the article :P
Not everyone wants to start a small business or make money on something. They shouldn’t be forced to just because tourists want to see something.
Especially running a tourism-based service. That just sounds like inviting nightmare into your life.
People ruin everything.
Yeah the internet can cause too many people in the same place easily. I’ve often come to the conclusion if I find some interesting obscure thing to just shut up about it.
Exactly take my pictures but don’t reveal the location. Or better don’t show them to anyone or even take pictures.
I re-save any pictures I post online in a very old image editing program that strips the metadata. It’s a hassle but I think worth it.
Fyi there are apps and online tools just for removing metadata. Also many sites (but not all) automatically remove metadata from uploaded images. For example imgur does that. But if your way works and is no hassle then keep on keepin on.
Yeah mainly just remembering to remove the metadata is the hassle. Upload sites might say they do it but I will never 100% trust that they don’t keep some part of it.
Yeah, this is exactly what’s happening with national parks. People are going simply to post pictures to social media and causing overcrowding.
Selfish people, ignoring signs and parking on the road caused this.
People need to deal with disappointment. I’d they couldn’t visit, they should have done something else.
Property owners trolling local community IRL.
Want to see a sculpture made of wood sitting in a forest contemplating nature?
Car Brain: Let’s drive as close to it as possible and ruin it for everyone.
