![]() A much more affordable one without boardwalks, shelters, rainwater tanks, and very elaborately designed drop toilets. But did I necessarily want it? Did I need it? It’s worthwhile imagining instead a different GPT. In some areas, there’s not much more than a shadeless, shelterless, parallelogram of flattened dirt with a couple of picnic tables, a pit toilet, and a water tank (which would be great if one wasn’t paying so much, to be honest). But the best part is that $48 per night doesn’t always end up being one of the luxe campgrounds like Yarram or Gar either.ĭue to how half-baked the original $33 million plan was, many campgrounds are decidedly more primitive. $48 already feels ridiculous enough, especially when our consent to paying this much has been largely manufactured. You could also just fuck around and fly to Nepal, walk up to Everest Base Camp, and gorge yourself on pizza and chicken wings every night for less. Of course, you also have the option to pay $1,850 for three days and two nights in luxury cabins on the northern section of the trail, and the stated plan is to have these cabins eventually available along the entire stretch of trail, at a price which will surely exceed the current $6,000 package. Because if that were true, then these sites would cost about the same as any of the totally finely maintained sites in Alpine, Otways or Wilsons Promontory National Parks, which are all $10-15 a night. This is already $38 above the average price of a Parks Victoria campsite, and yet Parks Victoria chair John Pandazopoulos says that this is an appropriate cost which is ‘ ensuring the cost of maintaining the track and servicing all the sites’.įrom a rational standpoint though, this sounds more like translucent damage control than the truth. If you want to hike the full GPT, it costs $48 per night to camp on a tent pad. The disparities in quality and accessibility don’t just end on the trail.īetween Parks Victoria’s stalled development of large sections of the Grampians Peaks Trail and the new availability of private ‘ luxury accommodation’ through licensed tour operators on other parts, the ball feels like it’s really being dropped on this project. ![]()
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