Oregonians, FYI...Washington Sno-Park Passes

No Sno Park permit is required at Paradise.  If you visit the Mount Tahoma Trails outside the park around  Ashford then a Sno Park permit is required; if you just go onto WA DNR Lands a recreation permit (Discovery Pass) is needed unless you are parking in a Sno Park; if you go onto National Forest there are Sno Parks that require Sno Park permits, Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams require their own permits; it might even be necessary in some areas to have a NW Forest Pass but if you bought the Golden Age Passport (vs. a Parks Pass), it is good at Parks, Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, etc., just like the pricier Golden Eagle Passport, but not for State lands or Sno Parks.

I have been told that a Discovery Pass is not required to park in Sno Parks if you have a Sno Park Permit; the Sno Park permit however does not substitute for a Discovery Pass if you park outside the Sno Park on State lands.

They are truly evil.

There used to be (could still be) a Recreation Roundtable starring corporations like Disney working with our elected corporate flunkies to do even more than what is in your links. Privitization has been a big deal for our corporate friends. The Forest Service was being forced into using more and more concessionaires decades ago. I remember driving south to raft the Green and Colorado Rivers; we left our water containers empty to save weight on the way down. I stopped in a U.S. Forest Service campground just of a US Interstate highway to get water from a hand pump. A "cowboy" was seated next to his trailer with his feet up on a stump. "That will be $5 per water container" from the taxpayer installed pump in the campground we all built and owned. He was the concessionaire representative. "You can have all the water you want for free, if you stop and eat lunch" he said, and continued "That will only cost you $20."

But these are the consequences of elections. Our friend and neighbors elect people who, if they could, would be charging us per breath for not-so-fresh air. You pooor young people will never have the freedoms us old ones had--free camping, free hiking, next to free hunting and fishing--of course, we paid taxes all our lives (but so did the rich) and many of us were drafted into military service to defeat the fascists with our communist allies in WWII then fight the communists in the cold war, Korean War, and Vietnam War, and now fight the Islamacists around the world while the profits roll into our fascist leaders.

TRULY EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Voting to lower taxes gets you this...

Spending all our tax money to steal oil from the middle east and on bailouts/handouts to the super rich gets you this.

Not to mention that the NPS, FS, BLM etc. are so bloated and mismanaged any additional funding is likely to just get turned into a parking lot for luxury cruise buses or a nice cushy desk job for yet another lazy bureaucrat.

Maybe so, but the funding issues within WA including SnoParks is a result of reduced taxes...

If WA doesn't have the money to maintain the recreation infrastructure it already has then why is it creating more high maintenance infrastructure catering to high impact users?

Because the RV crowd can afford the fees!

It's totally consistent with the ARC vision, until we can do away with public lands altogether.