Crater Lake, Ore – In a scathing rebuke to the National Park Service and the Company responsible as the concessionaire at Crater Lake, Senator Ron Wyden, criticized the safety and cleanliness of the Park in a letter this week. In the letter sent to Charles F. “Chuck” Sams III, director of the National Park Service, Sen. Wyden accused Aramark, of a litany of “serious concerns” at the park, including unsafe housing conditions for park staff, unreported diesel spills, unsanitary conditions in the park’s restaurant and poorly maintained fire alarms.
Ararmark unceremoniously dismissed the General Manager of the park this summer after learning of years of mismanagement, leading to a summer of chaos on the more than 180,000-acre facility that culminated with a haphazardly managed new fleet of tour boats that were delivered by helicopter in July however only received two weeks of Coast Guard approved operation in September.
