What are your favorite national parks?
My top 5 are
1. Yosemite
2. Olympic
3. Grand tetons
4. Rainier
5. Arches
What are your favorite national parks? My top 5 are. 1. Yosemite. 2. Olympic. 3. Grand tetons. 4. Rainier. 5. Arches
What are your favorite national parks?
My top 5 are
1. Yosemite
2. Olympic
3. Grand tetons
4. Rainier
5. Arches
I prefer non-federalized public lands. Land shouldn't cost money to enter or have restricted hours for entry.
But typically the most beautiful parts of the US are in NPs. Before you get all autistic on me, yes of course there are exceptions
And I disapprove of those gatekeeping efforts and I don't agree "most beautiful". Just most advertised and the roads are paved to get to the main part of it.
It would be so much cooler to discuss nature preserves or the difficulty of finding hikes on nature conservancy land, but nah you pick the most popular mainstream land designation to discuss online. National parks are for boomers to brag about having visited. This thread comes down to bragging about visiting popular places, nothing more.
Alright then, what are some of your favorite nature conservancy areas? Personally I loved the dungeness wildlife refuge. And what are some non NPs that you would say rival Yosemite or the tetons in raw beauty? Sedona is up there for me.
ive never been to a west coast NP, I can't really say if I like it or not
I dunno I wish nature conservancy shit were maintained better
there's almost never decent signage or parking
nelson sods is a pretty great view on nature conservancy land, you can see 270 degrees
and I guess in a similar vein Elleber Knob is a true 360 degree view unobstructed summit
>I wish nature conservancy shit were maintained better
>there's almost never decent signage or parking
Which is why them being paid is a good thing. Plus it's only $80 for a year to go to every np in the country
>ive never been to a west coast NP
No offense but that explains why you disagree about them being the most beautiful. You should come out here sometime. The two places you jsut listed do look pretty nice though
Denali (or any of the AK parks) is a dream. Someday I'll get out there.
>there's almost never decent signage or parking
That'd make it like a national park wouldn't it doofus.
Just park your car on the side of the road and walk off into the bush. Use a map, you don't need signs.
The US is now a 50% white country, And half of that 50% is 25% boomers, and out of shape Gen Xrs who will die soon. You leave your car on the road, when you come back, be ready to have it broken into, and have everything of value stolen. Could even be your transformer.
>The US is now a 50% white country
not factual.
It actually is factual, my grandfathers' generation was 95% blue or green eyes white, my generation is 15% blue or green eyes white. One generation is all it takes to brown an entire line for centuries to come.
Correct. It's more like 20%.
>and I don't agree "most beautiful". Just most advertised and the roads are paved to get to the main part of it.
>ive never been to a west coast NP,
thanks for weighing in then
>It would be so much cooler to discuss nature preserves
make a goddam reddit thread about it then. Quit b***hing about someone else's effort, they weren't making it to please your ass.
>restricted hours for entry
Most NPS (if not all) out west are open 24/7. $35 at Yellowstone is good for 7days.
Dude, shut the frick up you larping homosexual. Libertarians are cringe as shit and so are any boomer politics even remotely in the same universe as your bait post here.
must be an east coast dolt, almost all BLM and FS land are always open and always free.
1. Glacier
2. Denali
3. Mount Rainier
4. Redwood
5. Great Smokey Mountains (home turf so sentimental bias)
Haven't been to enough, but my top 5 are
1. Kings Canyon (and Sequoia I guess)
2. Haleakala
3. Death Valley
4. Capitol Reef
5. Joshua Tree
Actually frick that JTree kinda sucks. 5 is a tossup between Zion and Yosemite. They're crowded as shit but when they're quiet they're awesome.
>1. Canyonlands
>2-5. Who fricking cares
I had an otherworldly experience with Canyonlands last year. The complete starkness of the landscape combined with the lack of people (in the Needles section anyway) hit me like nothing every has in my life. Like there was a beautiful and horrifying world made only for me.
You should check out Grand Staircase Escalante if you haven't already.
I feel like I've spent a lot of time in the middle of nowhere, and I've never been more in the middle of nowhere than there. Quietest place I've been to in my life. Real alien shit.
I spent a lot of time out there as a kid and other similar landscapes as well. Always wild how you can just hike through the canyons and find ancient petroglyphs everywhere.
Olympic looks mid by western standards, what do you like about it?
Has literally everything, rainforest, dry woods, incredible biodiversity, several 10/10 beaches (I prefer cold oceans with cool rocks to climb on and animals to look at), big mountains, ski hills, animal sanctuary. The Hoh rainforest is magical, and the largest section of old growth rainforest in the US. Low(ish) crowds. I wanted to move to port Angeles, but the average age is a little older than I'd like and I don't think I'd find a gf there. Once I'm married I'll probably move out there tbqh.
Olympic is the best park in the lower 48 because the great shit requires miles and miles of hiking to see and hence is never crowded.
Also the only park outside Alaska you get both ocean and glaciers.
Even major parks like Yosemite get empty if you go far enough out.
High sierra anywhere 2+ days out and not on pct tend to be empty.
Olympic is based but it rains too much tbh.
The excessive precipitation is why it awesome rainforests and glaciers though.
This was really pronounced when I went east across Oregon. Suddenly it wasn't raining anymore, but the landscape was a lot less interesting.
1. Glacier
2. Grand Tetons
3. Yellowstone
4. Crater Lake
5. Olympic
going to more very soon
1. Kananskis Country (Provincial)
2. Banff
3. Writing-On-Stone (Provincial)
4. Bob Creek Wildland (Provincial)
5. Algonquin (Provincial)
1. yellowstoner
2. mt dankier
3. bowlympic
4. dank basin
5. big bong
Yellowstone
Crater Lake
Capitol Reef
Don't love Zion Canyon but I really like the other two entrances at Zion
Also never really did a whole lot at Grand Canyon, but there really isn't anything that compares to it.
1. Banff
2. Yoho
3. Pacific Rim
4. Waterton
5. Cape Breton Highlands
Provincial honorable mentions of Peter Lougheed, Mt Assiniboine, Killarney and Algonquin.
If I could cut the crowd by like 90% Yosemite would be number 1. It really is God's own garden there. All the Cali parks are special if I'm honest, but just too crowded to enjoy properly.
Most of my favorite places besides that are parts of national Forest though. Northern Uinta wilderness, the wind River range, The Everglades are unlike anywhere else, especially exploring on a clear bottom kayak.
Big Bend feels downright Jurassic, it's very cool, very rugged terrain. All the southern utahn red rock wilderness and the southwest in general.
great list.
1) Glacier
2) Grand Canyon
3) Olympic
4) Grand Teton
5) probably Yosemite, maybe Zion for me