Ripoff Day Pass for Thredbo

Has nothing to do with the SKi resorts, you have to pay to be in the National Park, as with many other national parks, including the one down the road from me in Northern Sydney. It's $10 so given the fragility and quality of Kozi $16 isn't that bad.

I was a bit stunned last month when I grabbed my yearly pass down there though, we go in for a full week each year and I use the local park so annual is the best way to go. $60 gets you all NPs except kozi, used to be $87 to include it but is now something like $180. Bit excessive but hey, I'll go a little earlier next year and get two trips out of it, plus a years access to my local NP and boatramp so I'm still ahead over the daily rates.

Worth noting that while I was in there I saw many NP vehicles out doing maintenance work, as well as plenty of evidence where they'd improved campsites from a year or two before, as well as improved road conditions. Facilities in the site you mention, and many others, are top notch.

Should also post a big thanks to and LROC members on the forum, the hut at Geehi saved our bacon when it decided to rain on packup day. Got everything dry in there before packing up to head over to the other side of the park.

It is the National Park that charges you for the privilege not the Ski resorts. I suppose you can stop at your peril as Parks will ping you if you are found to not have a valid pass. I drove into Thredbo recently from Khancoban and of course there is no gate to pay at and parked at the village. Upon returning to my car I had a note to 'pay up or suffer the consequences' lol.
And as for pulling the 'just passing through' stunt at Hotham will earn you a fine also as I as well as others have been picked up. But they did once again give me a 'pay up or suffer the consequences' letter.

Leroy

My problem really is that we are charged to enter "National" Parks. I thought that was why we paid taxes and the GST??????!!!!!

I don't know if they have mellowed or not, but when I was working up at Smiggins Holes in the mid 1970's building a ski-lodge. I was talking to one of the head rangers at the time and he said that if National Parks had their way there would be NO ski lodges or any recreational accomodation anywhere within the Kosioscko National Park,and the Park closed to public access, and also at that they had or were in process of disallowing the grazing of cattle culling the brumbies within the park boundaries.
I don't think $16 for a day pass is a rip -off for the privaledge to enjoy one of the best areas of natural buhland in this country and it also helps cover the costs of maintenance, and I would think that inview of the past events last summer there is a lot of work to be done.
A National Park Pass here in WA is $75 PA.

The point I was trying to make was that we were only passing through and not necessarily visiting the National Park per se and there fore thought it a bit rough to pay $16 for the privelege of taking a leak or having a cup of coffee or heaven forbid sitting on one their park benches.
As it is not a toll road I can't see how they can fine you if you should want to stop an d take in the view which I must say looks to only half as good as it would have been prior to the the 2003 fires.
I suppose making you pay helps to keep the riff-raff out.

Thats nothing, we were up there a couple of weeks ago, $16 for the day pass for 1 vehicle, $26 for a lift ticket, per person, up to the start of the summit walk, it costs everywhere you go.

If you want to camp in the nat park its still $16 per vehicle per day, we had 2 vehicles and 2 people for 2 days, we decided to spend a slight bit more and stay in Jindabyne in a cabin, warmer too.

$6 schnitzel at the Lake Jindabyne Hotel, with included salad, almost makes up for the national park expense though.

Andrew

Bet yer people living in either Muslim or Communist countrys are feeling a bit sorry for us having to live in such an over policed state. hehehe...

Lionel.