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New Business: Camping Cabins for Public Parks, At No Cost
For most of our company’s 30 year life, our primary business has been the turnkey operation (and sometimes refurbishment) of public parks and campgrounds. Today we operate over 150 recreation areas under this model, managing most all the operations and paying all the expenses in exchange for a revenue share […]Read More […]
An Economics Professor Visits the National Parks
This is a blob post from an economics professor at the University of Rochester, who spent the summer with some students in Kentucky and comments on visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Any of you who read about parks and recreation have heard the noise that our National Parks […]Read More […]
Bringing Private Capital to Refurbishment and Expansion of Public Parks: A Success Story
A while back I made a presentation at the RecX conference, held at the Department of Interior in Washington, DC. The RecX conference is a venue for exchanging new ideas on the frontiers of public recreation. In this brief, 13-minute presentation, I discuss our experience re-opening, refurbishing, and expanding two […]Read More […]
ParkPPP Blog is Rebooting!
Over the past year we have been pretty deeply immersed in some new business launches. Over the coming weeks, I will spend some time outlining the opportunities we saw and how we believe these new offerings will support public recreation agencies. In addition to a lot of new content and […]Read More […]
The Unsustainability of Free Public Camping
Secretary of Interior Zincke has proposed more private operation of Department of Interior campgrounds. As readers of this blog would expect, I think this is a good idea. However, many critiques have been raised of late. One example is this one from the Rebecca Moss of the New Mexican […]Read More […]
When Government Employees Are Supposedly Cheaper and Better Motivated than Private Contractors
When approaching public agencies, I hear this all the time: that their accounting shows that it is cheaper to do tasks themselves than to use private sources for the same service. The problem is that government accounting systems are not set up to make this sort of decision well. Critical […]Read More […]

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