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“But people were also saying things that were really eye-opening in terms of their perspective, like: ‘Well, it’s a national park. I own this.’ It was as if they thought national parks were nationalised pieces of land and therefore ‘if I leave my crap here it’s fine and if I don’t leave my crap then somebody else will be out of a job.’”
This sense of entitlement among new visitors wasn’t just a Lake District problem. The chief executive of Snowdonia national park told the Guardian of a visitor last year phoning up the tourism office and asking to reserve a parking space next to Snowdon.