mspohr
Well-Known Member
I have found all rangers in all parks to be very friendly. However, the National Park Service is woefully unprepared for EVs. It is rare to find any electric charging stations in any National Park. I only know of one in Yosemite. Sometimes you can find an RV site with charging but these are rare and usually fully occupied by RVs. Most RV sites in the parks don't have electric service.Parks typically appreciate EVs for that they don't generate the smog that's ever so vast now a days with the masses of fossil fueled cars driven by the tourists. If you ask the rangers for a place to charge your EV, they're typically very open to give you front row seats in terms of charging... in most cases FREE. That's how it is for the Grand Canyon when I was talking to a ranger and mentioned that I have an EV.
One would think that the parks would encourage EVs but they haven't put any resources into installing chargers.
I was in Death Valley earlier this year. They only had 15 (private) RV spots (all booked) and no other charging. Fortunately, the folks at the Furnace Creek Ranch were very helpful in finding me a 14-50 plug behind a maintenance shed for charging. The park does have a large solar panel installation but no EV charging. I made a written suggestion to install EV charging and received a response that it was a "great" idea... we'll see if anything happens.