Re: Island camping at lake george ny
tommays,
It has been awhile, but your description and location sounds like the ramp I used about 10 years ago. We had planned to use the southern state launch, but found out it was closed to boats when beach was open. We were directed to the closest, but private ramp. We had no problems launching and retrieving our 14' boat. The Lake was great, especially around the islands. We could spot fish in 20' of water. Hopefully, the lake has not changed.
If it is the same ramp, we must have caught them on a bad day. After we pulled out, and was starting out the driveway, a woman came out screaming about paying and threatening to call the cops. I had paid the launch fee on arrivial, so was taken back by this. She was screaming that I owed her parking fees for the car and trailer for the day. I tried to explain to her, I thought all was included. I had never been charged for parking along with launch fees. She indicated that the ramp was primarily used by lake property owners, and they didn't leave vehicles. OK, I begrungingly paid the parking fees. Unfortunatly, a great day ended on this note.
Just in case, I would ask specificly about parking fees. No need to go through the embarresment and mis-communication I had.
