Canyonlands

I spent one night at the Canyonlands, NP. It's a very wilderness-focused park. There is only one car camping site with only twelve campsites in it. But, there are dozens of primitive campsites that you need 4 wheel drive to get to. It would be a backpacker's playground. Here I did some of the quietest and least crowded trails since Joshua Tree.
While making dinner I watched a small drama play out in the next campsite. It seems a couple of German tourists had showed up really early, filled out the self-registration form with yesterday's date, left nothing at the site and went to go hiking. A few hours later an older couple in an RV showed up, thought the site was empty and set up camp. Around dinner the Germans came back. Since both parties had paid for the site and both felt entitled to it, I thought there was going to be a squabble and there was no camp host to settle the dispute. In the end they all decided to share the site. I watched the four of them go from being really mad at each other to reaching an agreement to sharing wine and stories around the campfire. I thought it was nice how in the absence of any authority figure people will choose to get along.