Oregon Considers Hotels and Businesses in State Parks as Budget Shortfall

Cafes? Zip lining? Oregon State Parks searches for new business partners as it faces 14% budget shortfall • Lincoln Chronicle

By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting The Oregon State Parks department is facing a 14 percent budget shortfall in the next biennium and to avoid cuts the agency says it’s […] The post Cafes? Zip lining? Oregon State Parks searches for new business partners as it faces 14% budget shortfall appeared first on Lincoln Chronicle.

Oregon Considers Hotels and Businesses in State Parks as Budget Shortfall

Oregon’s state parks are some of our greatest treasures – wild, beautiful, and (at least for now) free from the kind of tacky commercialization you see elsewhere. But if state officials get their way, those days might be numbered. As first reported by OPB, Oregon State Parks is facing a 14% budget shortfall and has decided the best way to plug the hole isn’t by fighting for public funding or cutting waste—it’s by inviting more businesses into ou…