NJ state campgrounds have a nice little jack set up. $20/night for residents. $25/night for non-residents. I am o.k. with that. The parks are state subsidized and I generally don't pay NJ state taxes except on the rare occasions when I buy stuff in the state. Here is the jack: If you want to reserve a spot, there is a $5 flat fee for each reservation. If, on the other hand, you show up without a reservation you still get charged the $5 fee. They call it a "transaction fee." What really gets me about that scheme is that the person working the office does the same amount of work checking me in whether I have a reservation or not, so it's not as if showing up without a reservation increases staff workload.