For Memorial Day Weekend, the nation’s unofficial opening of camping season, Seattle-based writer Christopher Solomon has a blistering screed against glamor camping, or “glamping,” for The New York Times. The increasingly popular practice is bad enough, he says, but now that it is being offered in some of Washington’s most sacred camping spots, like Moran State Park on Orcas Island, well, enough is too much already. Reservations can run as high as $220 a night for a two-night minimum stay. But the real rip, Solomon says, is that this is developing as legislators are cutting the budgets of state parks.
