Cotter campground closed for most of summer

grunge_hippy said :

I’ve never understood the appeal of the cotter campground. If you are that close to home, why not just go home for the night?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a camper, we go camping quite regularly, but not that close to home. I would much rather sleep in my own bed if I was 15 mins from my house.

I guess people from interstate come too, but I know it was popular for many locals.

I took my family out there last year for an overnight weekend camp, and we went for a stroll in the night. My pre-teen boys who will happily walk the dog around the suburb with me in the night were really scared by the strange environment and darkness. I’m going to do in again in a few weeks to help them get used to it. It’s a convenient low-risk place to introduce little grommets to the great outdoors.

grunge_hippy said :

I’ve never understood the appeal of the cotter campground. If you are that close to home, why not just go home for the night?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a camper, we go camping quite regularly, but not that close to home. I would much rather sleep in my own bed if I was 15 mins from my house.

I guess people from interstate come too, but I know it was popular for many locals.

That close proximity is part of the appeal, you can get close to nature at the drop of a hat, cheaply.

Same goes for Namadgi and Tidbinbilla, part of Canberra’s appeal.

People from Hackett should be allowed to stay out there during the 24hr construction work, so they can become used to the sound of machinery – that way it won’t seem so bad when they have MD-11s and 747s screaming ’30ft’ over their roofs at 2am when Canberra ‘International’ Airport’s new mega cargo facility kicks in.

🙂

Damn! I had organised a big BBQ day with a lot of friends for the end of November. Now we are going to have to find an alternative.

However, with a 24 hour-a-day construction schedule commencing from Monday 11 October 2010 for approximately eight months, the campground will be closed to ensure the visitor experience is not impacted by the increasing level of noise and activity.

As deye says, why not just put up a sign? This is like closing a road so people won’t complain about potholes.

geesh, they should just leave it open and put a notice that there will be 24 noise and activity. That way if you don’t care about the noise you can still stay there.

I’ve never understood the appeal of the cotter campground. If you are that close to home, why not just go home for the night?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a camper, we go camping quite regularly, but not that close to home. I would much rather sleep in my own bed if I was 15 mins from my house.

I guess people from interstate come too, but I know it was popular for many locals.