Keeping Public Parks Open

For nearly 25 years, we have been providing high-quality management of public parks and recreation.

Why Private Management?

Many public parks organizations are struggling to fully fund parks.  By  substantially reducing operating costs, we help keep parks open. …

 
 

Quality & Trust

We understand trust is a big issue.  We have decades of experience running parks the way the public and your agency want them run….

 
 

Serving Non-Profits

Increasingly, states are turning to non-profits to keep parks open.  But where can non-profits turn for the needed skills?

 
 
 
Current Contracts
 

Current Contracts

RRM has contracts with local, state, and Federal agencies across the country to many many types of recreation resources.

 
 
Awards and Recognition
 

Awards and Recognition

We have won numerous awards and accolades for our management of public recreation.  One such recognition is the naming of campgrounds under our management to the list of Top 100 Family Campgrounds in America: 2003: [...]

 
 
 

Recent Blog Posts

  • Rethinking California Parks
    The Little Hoover Commission, a sort of internal consulting arm attached to the California legislature, has released a report called “Beyond Crisis: Recapturing Excellence in California’s State Park System“. I am still skimming the report.  Certainly private partnerships play a role in the recommendations, but they appear to be the more tepid “private partne […]
  • Using Private Operators To Short-Circuit the Sequester
    Derrick Crandall has an article recently on ways the NPS can survive the sequester.  Here is a key bit: Second, there are roles and functions that could and should be reviewed and could be transferable to private sector operations.  For example, NPS directly operates most of its campgrounds while a sister federal agency, the Forest [...] […]
  • Huff Post Live Discusses National Parks and Privatization
    I was on Huffington Post Live the other day in a panel discussion on privatizing National Parks.  The link to the video and comments is here. None of the panelists, including me, advocated for privatizing National Parks.  The whole point of public lands, as I have written on this site before, is to change the decision-making [...] […]
  • Parks 2.0
    A relatively new group called the Conservation Leadership Council kicked off their tenure by sponsoring six articles on the future of environment and land management.  One of those size initiatives was called Parks 2.0: Operating State Parks Through Public-Private Partnerships. I won’t be coy — the authors interviewed me several times and I helped them find […]
  • 2nd Annual Park PPP National Conference
    We will be holding our national conference on November 7 in Reno, Nevada.  We have an amazing slate of speakers and a great program for agencies looking to understand the public-private partnership model for keeping parks open. All the details, speakers, and agenda are at ParkConference.com. […]
  • Essay Response: Should National Parks Be Privatized
    I was asked to write a 400-word essay for an outdoor magazine on “should national parks be privatized”.  Here my response. By the way, I put the stuff about myself and my company in under duress.  It was not in the original draft and he wanted something personal. Should National Park’s be privatized, in the [...] […]