Help Change Generator Hours at Doran!

How many of you were surprised to learn that the Sonoma Parks had changed their generator hours this past weekend?

The camp hosts came around and knocked at our door, saying it had been changed about 6 months prior... I was about to jump in the shower of our trailer when they told us the new hours were now 8am to 8pm. We had planned on running our generator to charge our equipment from 8-10pm since we were gone all day!

While leaving, the incredibly sympathetic staff at the main booth encouraged us to contact the Regional Parks office. They told us that others had complained about the generators going until 10pm, so the county changed it.

The staff recommended that we share the contact info and to get as many people as possible to contact the parks office!
If there is enough polite and professional feedback about the current hours, we might be able to get them to change it. We are such a large forum, we could easily get thousands of calls/emails in to them (however, we need to be mindful and do not want to give a bad impression of NCKA or the event....).

Personally, I think we should be allowed to run generators from 7am to 10pm - this allows us time to catch-up on some computer work in the evening, charge equipment, and cook our crab!

Please consider contacting the Sonoma County Regional Parks, and let them know that as a long-time camper at Doran, you would like to see them change the generator hours and restore them to the 7am-10pm time frame. Let them know how it impacts you and your use of the camping facilities.

Contact them by email (which is probably best):
[email protected]

By phone:
(707) 565-2041

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-Cherie

8 to 8 sounds better to me than 7 to 10 Doran is a pretty developed park so generators are acceptable, but in general I don't like to hear a generator at all when I'm camping. 

I have no problem with the 8 to 8 generator hours.

I'm good with the 8-8 hours.
It's nice to be able to sleep in w/o the genny noise and also nice to be able to chill in the evening before bed w/o that noise too.

I actually received an email from the park a couple weeks back about the new hours.

It Didn’t seem like it was very enforced where we camped over in and around the gull sites. I heard some near the restrooms around 5:30 am Saturday and heard them Friday night behind us until at least 9ish. 

I have a feeling that the thousands of emails from this group will skew in favor of keeping the 8-8 hours.

Yup... Sorry, we like the quiet... 8-8 is ok by me.

I would like to see them shut down before the dinner hour, so we can eat in peace. Maybe make generator free sections, I would prefer not to hear them at all.

I received an email notification of the generator hours change several weeks ago.  I'm good with the 8 -8. 

Thanks for starting a new thread for this discussion:

RE Generators: I have to say I'm on the complete opposite spectrum as PakehaCherie and find generators and loud music of others to be out of place in a campground, noise pollution you can't block out. I'm moraly, ethically, philosophically and any other "lly" opposed to bringing your house camping with you.

I have no problem with RVers all grouped together away from tent campers being allowed to run generators and the like until all hours but we're all there (well, I am at least) to disconnect from creature comforts and reconnect with nature and in a spot so near the water who wants to listen to someone else's motor running?
To me a big part of why I go camping is listening to the waves, the wind, the crickets! Not really there to hear your generator or listen to your favorite tunes.

I'm all for the restrictions and think that it's not a big deal to just plan ahead a bit and get all your charging done before 8PM is it?

My thoughts, don't want to be offensive or contrary, hmm, maybe I like being contrary a bit ,  but I guess we all have our own preferences/priorities. 

Salty

I would like to see them shut down before the dinner hour, so we can eat in peace. Maybe make generator free sections, I would prefer not to hear them at all.

agreed. I like the idea of a gennie free zone.

It isn't that tough to plan ahead and charge whatever you need. Or to get a solar panel. Hell, I have one that's like 6"x10" and it charges my phone and such. And I don't even want to see my phone when I'm camping

I like the dinner hour idea. If everyone had a whisper quiet model, it'd probably not be so disruptive, but somebody always seems to have a big-box-budget model that howl;s at about 135 decibels.

What Sean said!

The biggest issue is the Construction type generators. They are loud. The quiet inverter style dont make much noise. My little Honda is very quiet. But I only run it during the day. I don’t want to hear them run in the evening while I’m enjoying the quiet around the 🔥. I wish more places had earlier quiet times. 8 pm seems like a good time. Really need to plan ahead and get the batteries charged earlier in the day.

Luci lights, propane, and fire.
They’re pretty quiet.

I just have a truck camper so I don't use a generator, and am happy with not hearing them after 8.  it's nice to turn on the propane stove and make some coffee before the whirring all around starts.