This is basically going to be a two part posts, since it was meant to be two different posts, but I am just going to bundle them together, because I can. 
I am presently sitting at the Grand Haven State Park. It is pretty rare that you can find a place with two competing wireless service providers fighting for your dollar. Well, maybe not exactly fighting for it. As you can see AT&T has a hotspot here in the building. But, I am pretty sure they would like to charge you two arms and a leg to use there service, and I believe that they charge an hourly rate.
Luck for me, Azulstar is also in the area. Azulstar is the company that came along and bought out Ottawa Wireless (the company that put up wireless towers all over town to make us the first wireless city in the United States). They have a package that you can sign up for that will give you free 256k wireless anywhere in the city for 60 minutes day. Sound like crap? Well, yeah it kind of is, but the important thing is that the package is free. But, if you are “loaded” and spending the day in Grand Haven, you can get a day pass for $5.95. Not horrible if you ask me.
Now, let’s take a quick second to discuss the new state park passes. Look at that piece of junk just cluttering up my wind shield. The pass on the bottom is the ’05 park pass, and it pretty much what most of them have looked like through out the years. They are classy, and mostly translucent so you can still see through them (an important attribute for your wind shield). Unfortunately, the new ones are not so great.
As you can see, it is opaque, and has some awful gaudy design on it. It is pretty clear that someone in the parks department CLEARLY dropped the ball on this one.
I would like to know what everyone else thinks about the new park passes. It is just me? Or, are they really that bad?
I also agree that the state park passes look pretty bad because they are not transparent they did make them not look good