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I've been to a bunch of the US national parks and they're all insanely good. This is a thread to post pictures of them and talk about visits you've done. State parks and national monuments are also welcome. I did a road trip of the US a few years ago and I went to: Carlsbad Caverns The Rockies Sequoia Yosemite Zion Bryce Canyon Crater Lake Grand Canyon Yellowstone They're all cool as gently caress and I want to see the rest and they were all good for different reasons but I think Zion was my favourite I'm jewish it was a really cool valley and insanely hot and just good as hell   
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May 22, 2017 20:55
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national forests are also insanely good especially if you find the areas that arnt 5th gen slash pine. gonna use this summer to explore medicine bow nf
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May 22, 2017 21:01
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im going to go to the first one after trump destroys it so i can see with my eyes, a hint of the cataclysm to come definitely would love to check out Yellowstone tho
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May 22, 2017 21:02
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its a real long loving drive to get to the middle and it smells bad. Cool though
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May 22, 2017 21:04
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if u don't like the national parks there is something wrong with u imo
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May 22, 2017 21:06
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big bend was absolutely serene a giant loving caldera desert with a mountainous spire in the middle with another caldera in the spire, going all the way down to a bamboo forest on the rio grande     
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May 22, 2017 21:07
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my entire summer is gonna be national parks/national forests this year, it's gonna own so hard. no job, no money, just me and the mountains
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May 22, 2017 21:09
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Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge is great because no tourists know about it and barely any locals ever bother to go there. I once took a buddy from the UK there and he didn't know that when there's a clear opportunity to approach the water it's because prey animals cross there, and therefore there are ambush predators waiting for them. I had good laughs. He did not. Obligatory park porn:  Not pictured is the 90 degrees Fahrenheit and 95% humidity.
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May 22, 2017 21:12
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one of my shots from highline trail in glacier national park
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May 22, 2017 21:17
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National Parks own, and Zion is a good #1 choice. Did you hike The Narrows at all? That one is in my Top 5 list, and we'll be back to do the whole thing from the top down on an overnight some day. I'm a little bummed out because we're not traveling to any awesome NP's this summer due to a baby on the way, but we did make it to the Grand Canyon back in April. Since kicking off our NP trips in June 2012, we've been to: 2012 Yosemite 2013 Glacier 2014 Bryce Canyon Zion Capital Reef Mt. Rainier Olympic Mammoth Cave 2015 Yosemite again Volcanoes Haleakala Kaloko-Honokōhau Shenandoah 2016 Some of the historic sites around Boston that are part of NPS Acadia (twice) Crater Lake Mt. St. Helens Point Reyes 2017 Montezuma Castle Grand Canyon 2018 Rocky Mountain, Great Sand Dunes [??] national forests and wilderness areas are also extremely good and cool!
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May 22, 2017 21:19
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once i shift jobs in the company i should be able to more regularly take a few days off and i'm gonna start really hiking hxc to build up for the john muir jaunt, maybe a year or two down the road. preferably doing a short leg of it to get ready and make sure i got my backpacking kit together. shorter term, i really really really want to go back to big bend and spend a week doing the santa elena canyon. it's only like a 2-3 day hike but i want to take a lot of time sitting around on rocks and doing/thinking absolutely nothing 
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May 22, 2017 21:23
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Concerned Citizen posted:one of my shots from highline trail in glacier national park yesssssssssssssssssssssssss favorite trail, probably favorite park My wife and I both hyper-extended our knees on the way down the "loop" trail on the way down because we ran across a couple of bear cubs and were trying to keep up with the party ahead of us. Of course this was Day 1 and it made hiking the rest of the trip a little difficult until we found some hiking polls and ace bandages a couple of days later. We also unintentionally recreated this Ansel Adams shot our first night at Lake MacDonald e: this is the Adams shot, our composition isn't as good (duh) but apparently we had the same eye for a great spot to take a photo 
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May 22, 2017 21:25
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not nearly enough love itt for acadia
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May 22, 2017 21:27
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:not nearly enough love itt for acadia I don't have my Acadia photos available online, but both my wife and I felt like it was the best park we've been to for pure day hiking. So many trails all over the place.
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May 22, 2017 21:29
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The best part about National Parks is that they filter normies away from the far superior National Monuments and USFS/BLM land
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May 22, 2017 21:36
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brugroffil posted:National Parks own, and Zion is a good #1 choice. Did you hike The Narrows at all? That one is in my Top 5 list, and we'll be back to do the whole thing from the top down on an overnight some day. I'm a little bummed out because we're not traveling to any awesome NP's this summer due to a baby on the way, but we did make it to the Grand Canyon back in April. we did some hike that was basically 900ft of stairs in 40C weather at near 2.5km above sea level it was hard
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May 22, 2017 21:37
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I've been to a bunch and they all own. 100% of them own.
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May 22, 2017 21:39
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and to think dipshits want to despoil all of this to make more single-level housing and strip malls  Starved Rock is a heck of nice state park in Illinois and has the distinction of having elevation and waterfalls   
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May 22, 2017 21:39
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Starved Rock is really cool for Illinois. I had a coworker who used to go ice climbing on La Salle falls in the winter. Whole bunch of eagles feast on the fish near the dam in the winter.
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May 22, 2017 21:41
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we were driving through the national forest that is near badlands national park extremely low on petrol in the car just coasting down the mountain the road is cut through at a real panic we were going to be in the middle of nowhere with phone signal with no petrol but we were able to coast down the mountain until we found a petrol station in the middle of the national forest. It was cheaper than just outside vegas lol
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May 22, 2017 21:42
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For Now Op. For Now.
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May 22, 2017 21:43
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Seriously though, US Public Lands are the literal only redeeming factor about America besides its delicious ethnic fusion cuisines
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May 22, 2017 21:44
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gently caress yea thank you for this thread I'm going to lassen volcanic in a few weeks, apparently half of the park is still covered in snow from the cali winter storms, it's going to loving own last year went to sequoia, loving owned next year I want to hit up either glacier or rainier with a stop at crater lake national parks own own own
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May 22, 2017 21:47
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carlsbad cavern is cool as hell and if you're willing to do a long as gently caress drive you can do what we did which is stay local and go there as soon as it opens and then drive to Roswell and then to amarillo to eat a big gently caress off steak
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May 22, 2017 21:50
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:not nearly enough love itt for acadia We used to go camping in and around Arcadia all the time growing up. It was very scenic, but the bugs were insane. I have several friends working for or with the Parks Service and everyone involved is basically awesome.
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May 22, 2017 21:51
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i wanted to see a grizzly from the safety of the car but it was not to be. The Salt lake is a really nice visit that redeems the poo poo city
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May 22, 2017 21:54
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In a few months I'm going to visit relatives and be fairly close to Death Valley. Realistically, I'm only going to get a day or two free. If anybody can give me tips or suggestions on what to see, I'd appreciate it.
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May 22, 2017 21:55
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grizzlies are just big furry friends, no need to be afraid of them
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May 22, 2017 21:56
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Bethamphetamine posted:In a few months I'm going to visit relatives and be fairly close to Death Valley. Realistically, I'm only going to get a day or two free. If anybody can give me tips or suggestions on what to see, I'd appreciate it. imo see death valley
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May 22, 2017 22:26
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one time my family was doing a short trail in some park up in canada and an adult grizzly walked out onto the trail like 15 feet behind us so we backed around the next corner slowly then ran away that is my bear story
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May 22, 2017 22:59
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the national parks should be flattened, paved over, and turned into us national skateparks radical, duuuude
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May 22, 2017 22:59
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GodFish posted:one time my family was doing a short trail in some park up in canada and an adult grizzly walked out onto the trail like 15 feet behind us so we backed around the next corner slowly then ran away I had that happen (brown bear though) in the Grand Tetons, it's scary as hell. you're like "oh what a cute little bear cub on the path ahead... gently caress gently caress gently caress BACK THE gently caress AWAY"
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May 22, 2017 23:03
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my only bear story is spotting a mama black bear trying to take a nap on a fallen tree trunk while her cubs were doing their very best not to let her
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May 22, 2017 23:05
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LGD posted:I had that happen (brown bear though) in the Grand Tetons, it's scary as hell. I found out that Germans at bizarrely obsessed with the American West and research every little thing about it and wind up with dangerously/hilariously incorrect info. See this one German couple a co-worker took to Yellowstone who packed tazer in case of bears
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May 22, 2017 23:05
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Agean90 posted:I found out that Germans at bizarrely obsessed with the American West and research every little thing about it and wind up with dangerously/hilariously incorrect info. more like in case of buffalo, we tried to get back in our car at Yellowstone and a herd of them walked through the parking lot for like half an hour, it was pretty cool but dam those things are big
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May 22, 2017 23:08
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Agean90 posted:I found out that Germans at bizarrely obsessed with the American West and research every little thing about it and wind up with dangerously/hilariously incorrect info. like a third of the people I saw backpacking on that trail were German, it was sort of odd lmao at the idea of tazing a bear though GodFish posted:more like in case of buffalo, we tried to get back in our car at Yellowstone and a herd of them walked through the parking lot for like half an hour, it was pretty cool but dam those things are big Moose were the thing that surprised me, you can generally extrapolate buffalo from cattle, but you don't really appreciate how big those fuckers are until you see them in person (also they apparently can and will gently caress you up)
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May 22, 2017 23:12
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What about all the biting insects, spiders and snakes
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May 22, 2017 23:29
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LGD posted:Moose were the thing that surprised me, you can generally extrapolate buffalo from cattle, but you don't really appreciate how big those fuckers are until you see them in person (also they apparently can and will gently caress you up) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEhM2Byk7w&t=95s
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May 22, 2017 23:29
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I just got back from the Grand Canyon. It owned. Here is a lovely photo that I took. (Only the photo is lovely, the canyon owns) 
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May 23, 2017 00:12
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:I just got back from the Grand Canyon. It owned. Nice! Stick to the rim or did you hike down
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May 23, 2017 00:22
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