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Favorite National Park you have visited

So I live in the outdoors wasteland of the Mid-South which has only increased my appreciation for places with real natural beauty. As such I'm a National Parks nerd and plan to visit at minimum all the lower 48 US parks before I'm fiddy with the others coming after the kids are out of the house (not paying to fly three kids to American Samoa so I can check something off my bucket list, yes I am cheap and pore).

I love the American parks so much that I recently purchased this piece of nerdery for my office. The stickers are the 18 parks I've visited so far (Hot Springs is the most recent edition). Forgive the shitty pic, I clearly CARE about this shit butt not enough to go back and get you guys a better pic.

I plan on hitting three Florida parks in June and then the 9 Cali parks and a few others the following summer.

So which NP is your favorite and why? Feel free to wry tin your thoughts on others.

Favorite National Park you have visited 42 votes

Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
33%
Mad_SongreenblooddncPurpleThrobberBad_MotherDuckerGrundleStiltzkinCougzzEsophagealFecesGreenRiverGatorzLebamDawgEl_KEdwin_BambinoJoeyTXDawg 14 votes
Mt Rainier - DoogItUp.gif
7%
RaceBannonhuskyhooliganalopeciadawg 3 votes
Olympic - #TeamJacob or #TeamEdward?
9%
creepycougchuckdfleaDoog_de_Jour 4 votes
Yosemite - We always loose to Cal
2%
TheHB 1 vote
Grand Canyon - Beavis and Butthead desert wanderings gif
4%
BennyBeaverukdawg 2 votes
Everglades - #GoGatorz
0%
Zion - ZTFMF
0%
Arches - In my day the rock holes were a fancy feast
0%
Glacier - Bobby Hauck and Jeff Choate KG
23%
Fire_Marshall_BillRoadDawg55biak1TurdBomberbackthepackLaocoönStLouisDawgFishpo31NorthwestFreshZach_with_an_h 10 votes
Other
19%
DerekJohnsonCFetters_Nacho_LoverSwayewhlinderAtomicDawgYellowSnowBleachedAnusDawg1to392831weretaken 8 votes
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Comments

  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
    Obviously limiting to 10 options means I had to leave off a few deserving ones like Grand Tetons, Rocky Mountain, Sequoyah, Bryce Canyon, North Cascades (highly underrated) and all the Hawaiian and Alaskan parks. Fup Vanilla!
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    Glacier - Bobby Hauck and Jeff Choate KG
    Been to most of these, Glacier was by far my favorite.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    Been to most of these, Glacier was by far my favorite.

    Glacier is gorgeous. All I've done is the Going to the Sun drive and only once since I was old enough to recall it and that as a teenager. I need to spend some real tim in the park.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
    I damn near went with Arches but I've really only spent about two hours there. Dad and I snuck in real quick on on our way back from the Grand Canyon a couple years ago. The little bit i saw was spectacular. The road heading northeast out of Moab (on the east side of the Colorado river) that's just outside the park is gorgeous as well.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful




    Wyoming homer. I assume @UW_Doog_Bot will agree.

    I will say my first visit to the WY parks I was surprised how awesome the Tetons were since they get so little love compared to big brother up north.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,715 Founders Club
    Mt Rainier - DoogItUp.gif
    Mt Rainier was a home game and I['ve been there a million times but it truly is spectacular

    So is most of the list. I've been everywhere man except Zion
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    Mt Rainier was a home game and I['ve been there a million times but it truly is spectacular

    So is most of the list. I've been everywhere man except Zion

    My favorite experience in any park was at Rainier rather easily. One of my favorite moments of my life on a hike with Pops at sunset at Sunrise (TSB!).

    No shame in taking Rainier, at all.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    Mt Rainier was a home game and I['ve been there a million times but it truly is spectacular

    So is most of the list. I've been everywhere man except Zion

    You got to see them in the glory days. Sadly, so many of these places have been overrun by mobs of tourists. You can't even drive a car into Yosemite Valley or Bryce anymore. Everything is on a shuttle bus.
    Before they were parks









    Race was there!
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    Mt Rainier was a home game and I['ve been there a million times but it truly is spectacular

    So is most of the list. I've been everywhere man except Zion

    You got to see them in the glory days. Sadly, so many of these places have been overrun by mobs of tourists. You can't even drive a car into Yosemite Valley or Bryce anymore. Everything is on a shuttle bus.
    Grand Canyon was the only one I visited that was chinsanely crowded when I was there but even that dwindled down quite a bit the further west you went on the shuttle. I haven't been to any of the western parks since 07 though except GC, Arches and Petrified Forest.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    Like @dnc, I'm chintrigued and fascinated by the national parks. Mrs Nacho plan to drive to some in 2021 (we'd fly but it's really embarrassing to have to ask for two seat belt extenders).

    I think I've been to 4: Rainier, Olympic, Rocky Mountain there's at least 1 more. Rocky Mountain wins because my wife's cousin goes into the bathroom which is really just a permanent honey bucket (FREE PUB for Honey Bucket Butt Fuck! @DerekJohnson RIP @DeLarry) and proceeds to drop her cell phone in the toilet. She then comes out and asks the Park Ranger if there's a way to get it out. He just stared at her.

    Crater Lake?
  • backthepack
    backthepack Member Posts: 19,937
    Glacier - Bobby Hauck and Jeff Choate KG

    Like @dnc, I'm chintrigued and fascinated by the national parks. Mrs Nacho plan to drive to some in 2021 (we'd fly but it's really embarrassing to have to ask for two seat belt extenders).

    I think I've been to 4: Rainier, Olympic, Rocky Mountain there's at least 1 more. Rocky Mountain wins because my wife's cousin goes into the bathroom which is really just a permanent honey bucket (FREE PUB for Honey Bucket Butt Fuck! @DerekJohnson RIP @DeLarry) and proceeds to drop her cell phone in the toilet. She then comes out and asks the Park Ranger if there's a way to get it out. He just stared at her.

    I’ve been to rocky mountain 15+ times, it’s super cool. Plus Estes Park is kinda cool. Kinda funny but I was with my dad there about 2 years ago. We saw this super ripped fashionable ripped lumberjack dude with this women who was botox’d to the gills. They looked way out of place. As pup would say he was metro but he was masquerading as a TUFF mountain man. Funny enough we see the same guy in Maryland at the Montgomery Mall (visiting family) a year later. It made a lot of sense tbh. CSB I know.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    dnc said:

    Like @dnc, I'm chintrigued and fascinated by the national parks. Mrs Nacho plan to drive to some in 2021 (we'd fly but it's really embarrassing to have to ask for two seat belt extenders).

    I think I've been to 4: Rainier, Olympic, Rocky Mountain there's at least 1 more. Rocky Mountain wins because my wife's cousin goes into the bathroom which is really just a permanent honey bucket (FREE PUB for Honey Bucket Butt Fuck! @DerekJohnson RIP @DeLarry) and proceeds to drop her cell phone in the toilet. She then comes out and asks the Park Ranger if there's a way to get it out. He just stared at her.

    Crater Lake?
    Badlands.
    Badlands, cool fucking park man.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful

    Like @dnc, I'm chintrigued and fascinated by the national parks. Mrs Nacho plan to drive to some in 2021 (we'd fly but it's really embarrassing to have to ask for two seat belt extenders).

    I think I've been to 4: Rainier, Olympic, Rocky Mountain there's at least 1 more. Rocky Mountain wins because my wife's cousin goes into the bathroom which is really just a permanent honey bucket (FREE PUB for Honey Bucket Butt Fuck! @DerekJohnson RIP @DeLarry) and proceeds to drop her cell phone in the toilet. She then comes out and asks the Park Ranger if there's a way to get it out. He just stared at her.

    I’ve been to rocky mountain 15+ times, it’s super cool. Plus Estes Park is kinda cool. Kinda funny but I was with my dad there about 2 years ago. We saw this super ripped fashionable ripped lumberjack dude with this women who was botox’d to the gills. They looked way out of place. As pup would say he was metro but he was masquerading as a TUFF mountain man. Funny enough we see the same guy in Maryland at the Montgomery Mall (visiting family) a year later. It made a lot of sense tbh. CSB I know.
    ykwywf

  • biak1
    biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
    edited December 2020
    Glacier - Bobby Hauck and Jeff Choate KG
    Craters of the Moon is up there for me if we’re including that.

    Edit: should’ve put it in the other thread fuck me
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
    biak1 said:

    Craters of the Moon is up there for me if we’re including that.

    Edit: should’ve put it in the other thread fuck me

    It's in the NP system but not an NP so it's very HH worthy.

    Could go either way.
  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    Olympic - #TeamJacob or #TeamEdward?
    I love the mountains but hate people so I went with Olympic over Mt. Rainier.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,015
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful


    Get out and see the world, you Yankee bastards.