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Some national parks already have lottery systems for certain areas, e.g. to hike to the top of Yosemite's Half Dome: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hdpermits.htm

Some more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/04/0...

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I've actually won that lottery before. The process of going through it was looming large in by mind when I came up with this model. As we were packing to go, a friend of means asked if he could join. I had to tell him that there was no way for him to buy-in on joining. We would have gladly endowed Yosemite a bench to be able to join. That experience also loomed.

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