USA national parks. Of the United States of America.
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Ah yes, United States of America National Parks of the United States of America.
Capitol Reef is the most underrated national park. Go early in the morning. Get fresh bread and pies made from wheat and fruits grown right in the park.
Olympic NP is the most amazing.
Death Valley… just pass. It’s hot. It’s a bowl. It’s sand. Be like Anakin.
Joshua tree is dope, but try to go in the cooler months.
For any of them in Utah, if you’re a coffee drinker I’d recommend bringing your own packed and ready. It can be difficult finding a good cup for a while…
Glacier is easily the best we have in the country. If it was either seeing Yellowstone or Glacier I’d go Glacier.
Our NPs are so amazing. After traveling to other countries NPs it makes me cherish how special our parks are and how much better they’re treated and looked after as the park system is well staffed and looked over by people that really care. Teddy Rosevelt is a national hero.
Title implies the USA has national parks in other countries 🤣
Seriously, I'm surprised by the lack in the middle and Texas. NPs aren't all trees. Plenty of our national parks in Australia are arid.
In the USA parks are different than reserves or forests. National Parks has the stereotypical park ranger and guides, plus usually lodging and visitor centers and stuff. There are also national forests which probably have some trails and stuff but it's mostly "here's some land, good luck out there". There are also wildlife preserves and stuff.
Here's a full map of USA federally owned lands:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands#/media/File%3AUS_federal_land.agencies.svg
But ya, there still isn't a huge amount of federal land in the east. I think the federal government got a lot stronger moving out west.
It is a little bit different.
National parks in Australia are essentially conservation areas that are protected. Maybe more like the national forests, parks and lakeshores combined.
But you are right. What is going on in the east?
its because a big chunk of the US that drives through the entire center area of the US, including northwest Texas, is the great plains. there's basically grass for several thousand miles
Well, Texas is located right next to Dthinna Dthinnawan National Park and Sundown National Park, as well as several State Forests.
They do, didn’t you see the two parks in the occupied kingdom of Hawaii?
What? This is bullshit. There are a bunch of national parks in Michigan. Pretty significant ones.
They are not "parks", they are national forests and national Lakeshores
Then they skipped Gulf Islands National Seashore.
These should really all be connected by HSR to the major cities and centers in this country
Would cut down exponentially on car pollution, grant easy access and advertising to less known parks and putting up improved park hotel infrastructure at the stations can give most folks the satisfaction of having been there while also handling any induced demand it creates.
Plus you can use bargain "rail-trip" tickets to redirect people from the big name over toured parks to multiple parks at once that could also use some public love and attention.
Or shit you can make the rails themselves a hotel with special sleeper cars that route to give the guests as nice a rolling view as possible.
They skipped the homestead and agate fossil beds in nebraska, but like I totally get it