While Hotels Slump, People Are Going Camping

Above, The Beast at the North Pines Campground in Yosemite Valley. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The following article snippet from the Los Angeles Times makes perfect sense.

With mass hysteria over the coronavirus, people wanting to get out of the cities and away from others are finding camping to be the best remedy against "cabin fever" at home. Getting out into the "great outdoors" is a fine way to limit interactions with other people.

They wrote:

As shutdowns, cutbacks and other coronavirus-related troubles lead legions of Americans to stay away from hotels and airports, numbers are increasing at many public and private California campgrounds, their operators say. 

“We’ve actually had record bookings the last couple of days,” said Nick Devane, founder and chief executive of Texino, a company that rents and customizes camping vans. The company, based in the L.A. neighborhood of Silver Lake, opened in late 2018. 

“I think people want to avoid airports and they want to get away from cities, and camping is a way to do both,” Devane said. 

The California State Parks camping reservation system has also seen a surge — 97,417 reservations made from Feb. 1-March 11, up from 54,825 during the same period last year, spokesman Jorge Moreno said. During the same period, cancellations dipped from 14,248 to 11,992.

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