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Favorite National Park you have visited
dnc
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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.
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%
14 votes
Mt Rainier - DoogItUp.gif
7%
3 votes
Olympic - #TeamJacob or #TeamEdward?
9%
4 votes
Yosemite - We always loose to Cal
2%
1 vote
Grand Canyon - Beavis and Butthead desert wanderings gif
4%
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%
10 votes
Other
19%
8 votes
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Yellowstone - BRB, Old FaithfulObviously 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!
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Glacier - Bobby Hauck and Jeff Choate KGBeen to most of these, Glacier was by far my favorite.
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Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
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.backthepack said:Been to most of these, Glacier was by far my favorite.
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Yellowstone - BRB, Old FaithfulI 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.
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Glacier - Bobby Hauck and Jeff Choate KG
The hiking is amazing. We went on an 10 mile round trip hike to a Glacial Lake that was the most stunning thing I have ever seen.dnc said:
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.backthepack said:Been to most of these, Glacier was by far my favorite.
My dad is a bit a finicky guy I guess and we obsessed with bear spray the entire time we were there. He kept the bear spray canister in a holster thing around his waist. So we get this lake and I hear something that sounds like a gun shot. I turn around and my dad’s shorts are just covered in red. I thought he got shot because he was screaming in pain. Well it turns out my dad bent over to sit on a rock and somehow accidentally triggered the bear spray canister. It exploded all over his shorts and balls. I’ve never seen a man run faster into freezing cold water in my life. He had to hike the 5 miles back to our car, complaining the entire way of course. It got all over his junk, I can’t imagine how painfully that would be. He smelled of hot peppers for a week and had red spots all over his legs for 2 months. That’s my favorite family vacation by far. CSB. -
Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
Wyoming homer. I assume @UW_Doog_Bot will agree.YellowSnow said:
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.
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Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
That really is a CSB.backthepack said:
The hiking is amazing. We went on an 10 mile round trip hike to a Glacial Lake that was the most stunning thing I have ever seen.dnc said:
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.backthepack said:Been to most of these, Glacier was by far my favorite.
My dad is a bit a finicky guy I guess and we obsessed with bear spray the entire time we were there. He kept the bear spray canister in a holster thing around his waist. So we get this lake and I hear something that sounds like a gun shot. I turn around and my dad’s shorts are just covered in red. I thought he got shot because he was screaming in pain. Well it turns out my dad bent over to sit on a rock and somehow accidentally triggered the bear spray canister. It exploded all over his shorts and balls. I’ve never seen a man run faster into freezing cold water in my life. He had to hike the 5 miles back to our car, complaining the entire way of course. It got all over his junk, I can’t imagine how painfully that would be. He smelled of hot peppers for a week and had red spots all over his legs for 2 months. That’s my favorite family vacation by far. CSB.
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Honestly, can't pick a favorite. They are all magnificent or they wouldn't be National Parks.dnc said:
Wyoming homer. I assume @UW_Doog_Bot will agree.YellowSnow said:
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.
Checked off the list...
Yosemite
Lassen
Redwood
Crater Lake
North Cascades
Olympics
Rainier
Glacier
Teton
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Bryce
Zion
Arches
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Mt Rainier - DoogItUp.gifMt 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
