The problem here was that about a year after they started plowing, they started salting the local MUP here as well. Lots and lots of rock salt. Big piles.

Never mind the fact that the MUP was in a park next to a creek, but they were salting over iron bridges... some pretty big corrosion issues in the spring.

Generally pedestrain traffic flattens the snow here enough to ride on within a few days anyways. Places like VT and CO I imagine MUPs would get snowed in pretty deep and become pretty useless without a plow.