Staying there Kakadu Culture Camp, Djarradjin Billabong, Muirella Park Campground (00 61 428 792 048; kakaduculturecamp.com).
Outside the park, try Zion Canyon Campground (435-772-3237) in Springdale.
Trail Lakes Campground, 40904 Tamiami Trail, Ochopee, skunkape.info.info
Reservations (800-444-7275; requiredmericatcom) are required at San Elijo State Beach campground (760-753-5091; parks.ca.gov).ca.gov
A tent site amid tall evergreens at the Chief Hosa Lodge and Campground (27661 Genesee Drive, Golden, Colo.; 303-526-1324; www.chiefhosa.org) was $22.
One of the best places to stay is Moraine Park Campground, 2½ miles south of the Beaver Meadows entrance.
For example, 4.5 miles from the park's South Rim entrance, Ten-X Campground (928-638-2443; $10) has 70 primitive sites available first come first served.
Melissa Dos Santos, 21, who lives in a tiny trailer in a campground 30 miles north of Paris, where scores of people who can barely make ends meet are living.
Campground Status The Blackwoods Campground (207-288-3274; reservatiors: 877-444-6777 or www.recreation.gov; $20), which is convenient to carriage roads, hiking trails, the Park Loop Road and Bar Harbor, five miles north, takes reservations for nearly all its 290 sites.
Tsali Campground (828-479-6431; $15), iNantahalala, a half-hour from the southern boundary of the park, has 42 unreserved sites, hot showers and a network of mountain-biking trails.
