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re: Favorite National Parks?
Posted on 5/3/16 at 6:22 pm to Lima Whiskey
Posted on 5/3/16 at 6:22 pm to Lima Whiskey
I was unimpressed with Yellowstone based on my expectations.
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Posted on 5/3/16 at 6:23 pm to PNW
Favorite is so difficult for me.
Watching the sunset at delicate arch makes arches among one of the most incredible places in the world IMO. Great Sand Dunes are just incredible if you study the science behind it all (I'm a geoscientist, so it is my wheelhouse), as is Death Valley. Yellowstone wildlife is great. Zion is incredible all around. Glacier is on my soon list.
Watching the sunset at delicate arch makes arches among one of the most incredible places in the world IMO. Great Sand Dunes are just incredible if you study the science behind it all (I'm a geoscientist, so it is my wheelhouse), as is Death Valley. Yellowstone wildlife is great. Zion is incredible all around. Glacier is on my soon list.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:05 pm to thegreatboudini
My #1 is probably going to get hate, but this a lot of home bias for me. Just doesn't get much better for me to get lost in the park.
1. Great Smoky Mountains
2. Yosemite
3. Mesa Verde (Engineer in me)
4. Grand Canyon
5. Can't really seperate this one for me, Glacier/Zion/Death Valley/Kings Canyon/Sequoia/Redwoods were all pretty special for me.
Underwhelming would be Yellowstone for sure
Meh would be Tetons (see Alaska), Everglades (grew up in a bayou) and a few of the Alaskan parks. I hated Alaska though, it's something you need to see for yourself though. I saw a few from the air in my dad's cessna and few on the ground. I just spent too many years there, have no interest in returning.
1. Great Smoky Mountains
2. Yosemite
3. Mesa Verde (Engineer in me)
4. Grand Canyon
5. Can't really seperate this one for me, Glacier/Zion/Death Valley/Kings Canyon/Sequoia/Redwoods were all pretty special for me.
Underwhelming would be Yellowstone for sure
Meh would be Tetons (see Alaska), Everglades (grew up in a bayou) and a few of the Alaskan parks. I hated Alaska though, it's something you need to see for yourself though. I saw a few from the air in my dad's cessna and few on the ground. I just spent too many years there, have no interest in returning.
This post was edited on 5/3/16 at 7:06 pm
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:40 pm to Dam Guide
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. I hated Alaska though, it's something you need to see for yourself though.
Yeah because I've been here for a grand total of like two days and it's already light years ahead of Louisiana
Posted on 5/3/16 at 8:12 pm to gaetti15
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Yeah because I've been here for a grand total of like two days and it's already light years ahead of Louisiana
Eh, the place has one of the highest suicide rates in the US for a reason. Give it time.
I wouldn't move back to Louisiana either though. Quite content in East Tennessee, would move west but I fear my Mother in Law would kill me for taking what could be her only grandchild away from the area.
This post was edited on 5/3/16 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 5/3/16 at 10:19 pm to Dam Guide
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, the place has one of the highest suicide rates in the US for a reason. Give it time.
Actually saw a statistical breakdown of this not to long ago,as I was interested in it as well.
According to the breakdown as long as I'm not a native or old or a combination of both I'm in the clear
Posted on 5/3/16 at 10:29 pm to Dam Guide
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Eh, the place has one of the highest suicide rates in the US for a reason. Give it time.
If you're not native you're good. Alaskans have a very high degree of satisfaction with life. Quality of life here is much better than the South.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 10:34 pm to PNW
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I was unimpressed with Yellowstone based on my expectations
I think you have to get into the backcountry to appreciate it. It's way too overcrowded.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 10:45 pm to PNW
I can't imagine any of them not having some extraordinary characteristics. I haven't been to enough of them, but surely Yosemite would still be my favorite if I went to all of them. (Maybe some of the Alaska ones would outrank Yosemite)
Posted on 5/4/16 at 12:09 am to East Coast Band
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I can't imagine any of them not having some extraordinary characteristics
This is true. We have some of the most beautiful and diverse landscapes in the world, and most are fairly well preserved unlike much of Europe. You really don't have to go halfway around the world to see the most beautiful places on the globe.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 12:19 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I was unimpressed with Yellowstone based on my expectations
I think you have to get into the backcountry to appreciate it. It's way too overcrowded.
That's how most of them I've been to are. Glacier Park is great from the road, but hike in just 5 miles and it hits another level.
90% of all park visitors never get 1/2 mile from the pavement. You have to do a little work to really enjoy them.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 12:40 am to PNW
I have been to over forty National Parks and don't have a favorite.
For example, the ones I've been to in Hawai'i were all wonderful, except Pearl Harbor (technically the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument) which was remarkable in its own way but not nearly wonderful.
(Sidebar: Not a NP, but a memorable gov't. site I'm glad I've seen, the Punchbowl- VA Link)
Even as to just scenery, I couldn't recommend Joshua Tree or Death Valley over Grand Canyon or San Juan Islands or vice-versa.
Historically, taking a battlefield over a Jamestown or Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas?
I would have to know what someone liked and disliked (or didn't care about) to recommend a specific park to them.
I've personally enjoyed every one I've been to and visited.
For example, the ones I've been to in Hawai'i were all wonderful, except Pearl Harbor (technically the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument) which was remarkable in its own way but not nearly wonderful.
(Sidebar: Not a NP, but a memorable gov't. site I'm glad I've seen, the Punchbowl- VA Link)
Even as to just scenery, I couldn't recommend Joshua Tree or Death Valley over Grand Canyon or San Juan Islands or vice-versa.
Historically, taking a battlefield over a Jamestown or Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas?
I would have to know what someone liked and disliked (or didn't care about) to recommend a specific park to them.
I've personally enjoyed every one I've been to and visited.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 7:22 am to nicholastiger
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Will see Grand Canyon in about a month, will let you know.
South rim or North rim?
Posted on 5/4/16 at 1:19 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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You really don't have to go halfway around the world to see the most beautiful places on the globe.
Absolutely true! This is why I want to visit all of the National Parks in the U.S. before I start traveling abroad.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 5:51 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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If you're not native you're good. Alaskans have a very high degree of satisfaction with life. Quality of life here is much better than the South.
It was a joke there genius, I'm pretty familiar with Alaska having lived there and all. Alaska usually is in the middle in most surveys, but the south does get the low end of the totem. All that matters is where your quality of life is better and ours are on opposite ends.
This post was edited on 5/4/16 at 5:59 pm
Posted on 5/4/16 at 7:37 pm to soccerfüt
If you're including National Park "Sites" (Monuments, Historic Parks, Recreation Areas, etc.) I am right there with you. I've been to over 60 myself (those including the national parks already listed). If I had to choose 3 favorites that are not considered "National Parks" per se, they'd have to be:
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Oregon Caves National Monument
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Oregon Caves National Monument
This post was edited on 5/5/16 at 6:52 am
Posted on 5/5/16 at 11:14 am to PNW
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If you're including National Park "Sites" (Monuments, Historic Parks, Recreation Areas, etc.) I am right there with you.
Agreed. I've been to a ton of these as well. Haven't counted but I'd imagine I've been to at least 50 or more.
Devils Tower
Pictured Rocks
Little Bighorn
etc.
Posted on 5/5/16 at 3:59 pm to Year of the Dragon
Trinity Alps is a national rec area in NorCal. Its not well known
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