{"id":16652,"date":"2013-10-03T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=16652"},"modified":"2013-10-03T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:21:10","slug":"why-the-federal-government-shutdown-might-be-good-for-oklahoma-state-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/10\/03\/why-the-federal-government-shutdown-might-be-good-for-oklahoma-state-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Federal Government Shutdown Might be Good for Oklahoma State Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OakleyOriginals \/ Flickr<\/p>\n

A hiker navigates through Robbers Cave State Park near Wilburton, Okla.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Federally run campsites, parks and pavilions at dozens of Oklahoma lakes controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have closed<\/a>\u00a0because of the federal government shutdown.\u00a0But that’s not keeping people away from lakes like Texoma, Eufaula, and Tenkiller, it’s just funneling them into state parks instead.<\/p>

Reporter Helen Headlee with KXII-TV talked to Glenn Thompson<\/a>, who had just finished unpacking his gear and launching his boats at the Corps-run Lakeside Campgrounds on Lake Texoma in Marshall County. That’s when he got word the campsite was being closed:<\/p>\n

So he packed up and left for Lake Texoma State Park.<\/p>

“Good thing Oklahoma’s not in this thing because we got to stay here,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The office there told Headlee the park has been seeing an uptick in business since Tuesday, when gates to Corps campgrounds where closed.<\/p>\n

Before then they had 15 campsites occupied. Now 27 additional sites are full. At $20 to $23 a night, that’s an extra $540 to $621 a night for the state park.<\/p>

But the rows of RVs are brining money to the surrounding towns, too. The night manager at Country Kitchen in Kingston said they’re already seeing more customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>

As StateImpact reported on Wednesday<\/a>, Oklahoma’s state parks are not impacted by the federal government shutdown. Corps-run areas will remain closed until the situation in Washington is resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As StateImpact reported on Wednesday, Oklahoma’s state parks are not impacted by the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":16689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492],"tags":[111,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16652"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16692,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions\/16692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}