Yes. Many sit empty in deer season and have done so for 10 years or more. Far more people are in camps during the last few weeks of bow season and on the three big summer holiday weekends.

Deer camp has fallen out of favor for atv riding, bow season and short term vacation rentals.

No need to. Live in potter. Drive past hundreds of camps a day.

People who hunt from camps are a very small minority. This isn’t 1960 anymore.

If the state legislature would let the PGC do its job and make rules and regulations as it sees fit, we could avoid a lot of bullshit.

It’s asinine that I can check traps with a semi auto .22 rifle, but to do so with a semi auto .22 pistol is illegal.

All because a handful of hunting camps are pissed that they can’t sit around and get fall down drunk all weekend before deer season.

Get over it. We got two extra days of deer season.

Correct. It is seat yourself and we never progressed any further than the front counter.

We had a group of five. It was busy, but we had as asked if we could move two smaller tables together to fit our group. One kind staff member was making sure we had a place for our group to site when the one at the register chimed in and told us that we would have to sit where the tables were. Fine, no biggie.

We had assumed that since it was pay at the counter, they would be able to give us all separate checks for our reimbursement purposes. When traveling for work, I always try to check ahead of time, as not not burden the staff after it’s all be entered into the POS system. We were told that they couldn’t do that, and we would be charged an additional gratuity for our party size. I think it was 15 or 18 percent, for a fucking party of five. We decided that the customer service in there sucks and we’d go elsewhere. The lady at the counter seemed as though we were a giant inconvenience and that she didn’t want us in the restaurant.

Yak and Yeti was busy and understaffed, but they made sure we were taken care of and we didn’t mind waiting for a quality meal.

I was greatly disappointed since I had heard how great the ramen was, but I won’t be treated like that.

Imagine living your life thinking that the only way that you can experience nature is by walking on a manicured “pedestrian path” in the suburbs somewhere.

I’m not sure that the OP has done much of anything other than try to steal peoples land.

Trash can kill livestock. Cows will eat metal objects and it will rip apart their digestive system.

I was in Carlisle for business several months and wanted to eat there with a few colleagues. I’ve never been treated worse in a restaurant in my life and we never even got seated.

Walked across the street to Yak and Yeti and had a great meal.

Potter is over 300 square miles bigger than Allegheny county.

Think about the environmental impacts of have to make and transport meat alternatives, versus me walking out my front door and shooting a deer.

Not afraid I’d the cities at all. I do know that I don’t like them apart from a visit every once in a while.

I will stay in woods, on my own land. Instead of demanding that everyone else allows me to recreate on theirs.

Seems like a lot of money to pay for 1/4 acre in a subdivision where someone can tell you what color you need to paint your door and how many cars you can have in your driveway.

You’re referencing a trail that is located in a very rural area, with the majority of it being no man-developed state forest land. Hence the leave no trace guidelines for using the bathroom in the woods.

Point being is that even this trail has issues, and only a very small fraction of it runs through private property.

Just imagine some dude taking a dump in the backyard of your suburban McMansion.

I suggest you just go out and buy your own land, stop trying to make everyone else let you use your own for free.

Here are my final thoughts on the matter.

About 40 years ago, my wife’s family farm was taken by Eminent Domain. At that time, we had read all the studies, spoken with people on both sides and were assured that eminent domain was not on the table. Needless to say, we don’t own that farm anymore, and were paid only a fraction of todays value.

Furthermore, if walking outside is something that you enjoy, consider living in an area with large amounts of public land and hiking trails. Don’t demand that others make their land available to you.

Easements or acquisitions.

So if 5 out of 8 properties get on board, but the last three hold out, guess how that land becomes acquired.

Eminent Domain.

A township or county isn’t going to fund the construction of a trail without first owning the land.

If the farmers were ok with people tromping all over their land, they probably would already allow public access.

I’m going to assume that you are not a land owner? I am. It comes with a very unique and specific set of headaches.

Right. It’s a great reason to not take private land and turn it into trails.

Build all you want on public land.

Or…..people could respect private property.

Pine creek rail trail.

It’s not the trail the concerns me. It’s the people on the trail.

There is a rather popular rail trail in the county next to where I live and it has issues with people off the trail all the time. Human waste on private property, dogs not in leashes chasing landowners dogs and their other animals.

Well yeah…..it hasn’t snowed here since late Christmas Day and it was like 35 degrees. I would sure as shit hope the roads were clear.