Re: Graffiti

But how do you limit access as the springs are near an area that increasingly has urbanized? With Mike partially closed (at night) people are just heading toward the Freedom Trail, and lots coming in on Bradford now.

Less oversight is not the answer, for sure. If a place is being used wrongly as a campsite (I found that REI has it listed as "Deep Creek Hot Springs Campsite" on their website! Wrote to them asking them to take that down), then Rangers need to visit and educate.

Looking on Instagram in the past few days, I've seen people baldly posting their videos of "fire" dancers spinning fire at night near a big roaring campfire. These are "regulars" at the springs for years, many of you will know them by name, i.e., folks who sometimes basically live out there. At least they should be friends of the springs but people are too selfish. And a dude who has been going for some years, a big bike fanatic, who took his friends out there and had them all dirt bike on their mountain bikes down to the springs on the Freedom Trail at high speed in the rain. And then posts about it.

All the stupid, it hurts.