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Favorite National Park you have visited

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Yellowstone - BRB, Old Faithful
    Swaye said:

    dnc said:

    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!

    You even added a shitload more and STILL didn't list the Black Hills. I thought we had something special.
    Not a national park. I did shout them out in the other thread though. Helps Noem, IMO!
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  • IPukeOregonGrellow
    IPukeOregonGrellow Member Posts: 2,183
    edited December 2020
    I’m a fan of the Smokey Mountains for it’s combination of hiking, history and freeness. The abandoned hillbilly farms are cool and Gaitlinburg and Asheville are cool drinking towns.

    Redwood is the best on the West Coast.

    Voyageurs is probably the most underrated one and also the one that takes the biggest physical toll on your body portaging canoes from lake to lake.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
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    IPukeOregonGrellow said:

    I’m a fan of the Smokey Mountains for it’s combination of hiking, history and freeness. The abandoned hillbilly farms are cool and Gaitlinburg and Asheville are cool drinking towns.

    Redwood is the best on the West Coast.

    Voyageurs is probably the most underrated one and also the one that takes the biggest physical toll on your body portaging canoes from lake to lake.

    Good chit on Voyageurs. Looking forward to it and Isle Royale.

    I’ve been to the smokies more than any of them. Gatlinburg and Asheville are very cool in different ways and GSMNP is pretty but they just can’t compare to the mountains out west for me. I know it’s not fair to compare them but it’s hard not to. Shenandoah is similar but a full step down.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
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    whlinder said:

    Shenandoah!!! VOOG? It up!

    This is something I need to do more of but work takes me internationally usually and the family aren’t the biggest outdoor fans. It’s been decades since I’ve seen one other than Shenandoah. Out of Crater Lake, Rainier and Olympic I would probably rank Olympic 1, Crater Lake 2 and Rainier 3.

    We did Skyline Drove back in August. It was cool but nothing made me say “I have to come back”
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
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    whlinder said:

    dnc said:

    whlinder said:

    Shenandoah!!! VOOG? It up!

    This is something I need to do more of but work takes me internationally usually and the family aren’t the biggest outdoor fans. It’s been decades since I’ve seen one other than Shenandoah. Out of Crater Lake, Rainier and Olympic I would probably rank Olympic 1, Crater Lake 2 and Rainier 3.

    We did Skyline Drove back in August. It was cool but nothing made me say “I have to come back”
    Agree, it’s nothing special if you’ve been out west. If you’ve only been in the East it’s more special than 2023 will be. Much nicer in the fall too when the leaves turn and you get different sunlight angles.
    Yeah I think we were there a few weeks too early. The Smokies are definitely best experienced in the fall as well.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
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    RaceBannon said:

    whlinder said:

    dnc said:

    whlinder said:

    Shenandoah!!! VOOG? It up!

    This is something I need to do more of but work takes me internationally usually and the family aren’t the biggest outdoor fans. It’s been decades since I’ve seen one other than Shenandoah. Out of Crater Lake, Rainier and Olympic I would probably rank Olympic 1, Crater Lake 2 and Rainier 3.

    We did Skyline Drove back in August. It was cool but nothing made me say “I have to come back”
    Agree, it’s nothing special if you’ve been out west. If you’ve only been in the East it’s more special than 2023 will be. Much nicer in the fall too when the leaves turn and you get different sunlight angles.
    In Oklahoma someone would mention Mt. Something and I'd look around and go where?

    Right there!

    That's a hill mate and barely that
    I'm calling bullshit.

    There are no hills in Oklahoma.
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