Sad abandonment

What if someone gave you forty million dollars and said build some recreation facilities. That is what happened here where we spend the winter in one of the abandoned campgrounds.  When the Salt River Project decided to raise the dam ninety feet somehow forty million showed up to mitigate the damage that would be done by flooding such a vast area.  Jasper Littlebottom and Kadizzle have traveled most of the United States.  Nowhere are there a collection of camp sites on the scale that exist here.  There are 1,200 very nice camp sites along Lake Roosevelt.  Very nice rest rooms with running water and flush toilets are everywhere.  Huge parking lots for hundreds of boats and cares sit idle at the deluxe boat ramps.  Dozens of nice solar showers are scattered about.  On and on it goes. This place has such an excess of everything.  The idea was that people from Phoenix would flock here to camp.  They don't.   Ironically the heaviest used area here is on the beach where there are no improvements.  People drive their RVs out on the sand near the water and park.  The Forest Service has dedicated a huge section of the area just for use and the other volunteers.  About ten  campsites are used of the three hundred.  We have plenty of space and facilities all to ourselves including a couple solar showers.  It is just so sad to see so much waste of such nice facilities.  If you ever get near here we can put you up for free for a few days.  As volunteers we can have guest.   Even if you have to pay the daily fee it is a nice place to stay.  All those people sitting in Phoenix, Flagstaff, and the rest of the country staring at computer screens while this place sits empty.