I'm requested to submit National Park Permit Form 10-115 (for US National Parks) for continue offering my experiences - I'm based in Spain (Europe), though

[Angela714]

That's right. I'm rquested to submit that permit (and ONLY National Park Permit Form 10-115 would be accepted), otherwise my experiences would be suspended.

I have contacted Airbnb support who suggested I should apply for an "exception (which I did, explaining the issue), I have submitted a PDF informing Evident (the obviously highly professional and efficient company Airbnb is working with to do this kind of verifications) that I'm not in the US, but in Spain, and that we do not have such "National Park Permit", let alone a "Form 10-115".

Evident, however, keeps insisting. Action, they say, is needed, they MUST have this (and no other!) form by September 21.

Anything that can be done, or must we now all have US permits to carry out our activities in our respective countries?

[Michelle53]

@Angela714  I'm a little confused - your Airbnb profile indicates you are hiking in the Sierra Nevada National Park .   As far as I could tell, based on some general googling, permits are not required for day hikes, but for overnight they are required. Perhaps it's to do with your sunset hike ?  

[Angela714]

Thanks for your reply. Where did you read that a permit is required for night hikes in the Spanish Sierra Nevada National Park? That would be completely new to me, and I'm hiking these mountains since many years almost daily. Also they specifically request a "Form 10-115" (no other form would be accepted), and that form is for US National Parks, not National Parks in Spain or elsewhere.

[Michelle53]

@Angela714  I was looking at the US Sierra National Forest.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/sierra/passes-permits/?cid=fsbdev7_018115

That appears to be where the confusion is. 

[Brian2036]

@Angela714 

I think I see the problem.

They have decided that you must be in California because your listing mentions Sierra Nevada. Naturally no one could imagine that the name might have been used elsewhere before California was California.

Could you remove any mention of that and replace it with “las montañas de Andalucía” or something like that?

You could try to convince someone that you have no intention of hiking from Spain to California but considering that they like to hire people who are barely literate I doubt that it would work.

If all else fails I suppose you could get a totally useless permit from the USNPS for some imaginary excursion that you might want to take some day.

[Michelle53]

@Brian2036  Good call. I didn't make the connection .

[Quincy]

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