Savannah Bananas is a great IG follow. Need to hit one of their games and I fucking hate baseball.
SAV is a great town. NOLA without a major fear of getting killed.
SAV is a great town. NOLA without a major fear of getting killed.
Favorite National Park you have visited
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Bummer brah. It’s more real and spectacular than most on this list.
I see what you’re doing here though going for maximum output in a short period of time. Crater Lake is out of the way based on your route and time schedule to keep.
dnc
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If it were just me we'd be hitting Crater Lake for sure. Only been once and it was super cloudy so I've always wanted to go back. But alas Mrs DNC only requested like 4 things on this whole trip and the Oregon Coast was one of them so we're hitting it instead. And yes, definitely a quantity over quality trip.
Kind of sad, for how much natural beauty the Ducktards have, we? are shit as fuck for National Parks compared to WA, CA, UT, CO, etc. Just the one with Crater Lake. Only @PurpleThrobber is worse at National Parks than Oregon is with their little c-hair of Yellowstone.
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StateChampWereU
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Yosemite in April when the waterfalls are gushing and between spring break and summer crowds. It can be chilly, but the scenery is worth it.
Idaho refuses to be controlled by the Feds.
Take this to the Tug.
Idaho has the 3rd highest percentage of federally owned land in the US, behind only Nevada (1st) and Utah (2nd). The armpit sex states couldn't be trusted to control their own lands.
I tried to slide a right wing curve by.
Idaho is essentially one big National Park.
Nevada is one big mining royalty for the feds.
IFL Idaho and married a potato head (no armpit sex though).
The interior of the state is remarkable wilderness.
Just always baffles me that there's not one National Park.
Pitchfork51
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National parks are basically white supremacy.
Haven't you seen the articles on black people not going as much as white people?
Haven't you seen the articles on black people not going as much as white people?
It's mostly Chinese and (dot) Indians at the West Coast National Parks.
@dnc I think you really screwed the pooch by not taking in Crater Lake. Took the fam down there on Sunday as I haven't been since 1989. North Entrance is about 90 mins from my house.
Just fucking stunning as there's no other view like that on Earth.
For my money, the Mt Rushmore of National Park (US) views is Grand Canyon, Crater, Yosemite, and then Rainier. Zion and Bryce are honorable mention.
I grew up in the wilderness between the Cascades and the Rockies. In a log house. Didn’t have a phone until I was 8 and that was a party line.
Yellowstone as a kid felt very urban to me, it had paths. And stores and shit. But Glacier was wild and pristine, true beauty. And as I recall Lewis and Clark caverns were nearby and totally worth the side trip.
Yellowstone as a kid felt very urban to me, it had paths. And stores and shit. But Glacier was wild and pristine, true beauty. And as I recall Lewis and Clark caverns were nearby and totally worth the side trip.
Well it's good to know @dnc is still alive.
dnc
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I still owe you guys a breakdown of my trip last year. Will try and get on that soon.
Just stumbled across this story. Super cool. #Goals
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoN1OqSjXfZ/
Just stumbled across this story. Super cool. #Goals
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoN1OqSjXfZ/
dnc
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Alright so the grand 2022 trip report is going to fill up multiple posts but I'll get started with one here. Will probably structure it something like this:
Rocky Mountain parks (Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff)
WASHINGTON parks, dammit (North Cascades, Rainier, Olympic)
Cali forest/mountain parks (Redwood, Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon)
Other Cali parks (Pinnacles, Channel Islands, Joshua Tree)
Canyon parks (Zion, Arches, north rimGrand Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches)
Colorado parks (Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison)
Rocky Mountain parks (Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Glacier, Banff)
WASHINGTON parks, dammit (North Cascades, Rainier, Olympic)
Cali forest/mountain parks (Redwood, Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon)
Other Cali parks (Pinnacles, Channel Islands, Joshua Tree)
Canyon parks (Zion, Arches, north rimGrand Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches)
Colorado parks (Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison)
dnc
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So for context we spent 41 days on the road and I think ended up seeing bits and pieces of 21 American National Parks plus one primary Canadian park (Banff) plus sort of passing through about 3 other Canadian parks. Big quantity over quality trip, we wanted to see as much as possible. It was the wife, myself and three kids, then aged 7, 6 and 2. We put almost 12,000 miles on the minivan round trip. Left Memphis day before Memorial Day, spent about 12 days getting to Seattle (up through TN, AR, MO, KS, started site seeing in Colorado, NW Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alberta and BC), 8 days in Seattle, a couple nights on the Oly peninsula, and another 20 days getting home (through Oregon, California, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, then basically done siteseeing and just hustling back through NE NM, TX panhandle, OK, AR, and TN to home).
Rocky Mountain Parks
Grand Teton: We sadly didn't have much time set aside for Grand Teton, it was kind of just a "passing through" station for us. One of the big goals of this trip was to see as much wildlife as possible for the kids (the older two had Bingo sheets made up with 25 animals each they had selected that they were hoping to see on the trip and the first one to fill their sheet up first won - this was both brilliant and a little too brilliant. At one point we saw a humpback whale and my then 7 year old shrugged because it wasn't on his list). With wildlife a big goal we targeted a lot more tim in Yellowstone than Grand Teton. I can't reiterate strongly enough how big of a mistake this was.
So Grand Teton...holy shit! I knew the mountains were spectittilytacular. We had been there a couple times as kids and my little brother and I called them the Grand Tittytons because that's what middle school boys do. Little did we know how historically accurate our horniness was but I digress. I did not realize what a wildlife sanctuary this place was. We passed through on our way into Yellowstone and came across a massive bunch of cars parked hastily on both sides of the road. We knew something big was up. So I dropped the wife and kiddos, drove down to find a place to park and came back to find this.
That's my daughter looking through some binoculars a generous lady let her borrow as they lined up at the ranger established perimeter. Why did the ranger establish a perimeter? Because
there was a Mama grizz hanging out with her three cubs. Sorry for the shitty photography but apparently I was so excited I mostly just got video and no pics so these are screen caps cause this site has no good video function. This was a big deal for us because one of the biggest goals of all for this trip was to see a bear in the wild. I had never seen one. More importantly my dad (not on the trip) had never seen one, so I pumped the kids up before the trip "we are hopefully going to see a bear and when we do we're gonna call grandpa and tell him "we saw a bear before you did". And sure enough this was pretty much our first chance to see one and we got not one but four and grizz rather than black bear at that. Huge moment for us, even though we were aways away and surrounded by people.
We went into Yellowstone for the night and the next day (see below) then came back down through Grand Teton towards a little place we were staying at on the west side of Teton Pass in Victor Idaho. On the trip south we stopped in the park to get something to eat and came across a mama fox and three kits. Again shitty screen caps:
So that was fun.
Then rolling out after dinner we saw another grizz (this one a solo male). Didn't get any good pics of him though but by now we were really on a roll.
We also came back the next day to go to the Visitor Center to get the kids passports' stamped because both ways going through GT we were too late in the day to catch the VC. And on the way back from the VC we saw a baby moose nuzzling under its mom.
Also there are mountains there.
So yeah I guess for some of the better park experiences like this the parks will need their own poast and it won't even work to group them together.
TL; DR: Grand Teton is the tits and you should spend more time there than we did.
Rocky Mountain Parks
Grand Teton: We sadly didn't have much time set aside for Grand Teton, it was kind of just a "passing through" station for us. One of the big goals of this trip was to see as much wildlife as possible for the kids (the older two had Bingo sheets made up with 25 animals each they had selected that they were hoping to see on the trip and the first one to fill their sheet up first won - this was both brilliant and a little too brilliant. At one point we saw a humpback whale and my then 7 year old shrugged because it wasn't on his list). With wildlife a big goal we targeted a lot more tim in Yellowstone than Grand Teton. I can't reiterate strongly enough how big of a mistake this was.
So Grand Teton...holy shit! I knew the mountains were spectittilytacular. We had been there a couple times as kids and my little brother and I called them the Grand Tittytons because that's what middle school boys do. Little did we know how historically accurate our horniness was but I digress. I did not realize what a wildlife sanctuary this place was. We passed through on our way into Yellowstone and came across a massive bunch of cars parked hastily on both sides of the road. We knew something big was up. So I dropped the wife and kiddos, drove down to find a place to park and came back to find this.
That's my daughter looking through some binoculars a generous lady let her borrow as they lined up at the ranger established perimeter. Why did the ranger establish a perimeter? Because
there was a Mama grizz hanging out with her three cubs. Sorry for the shitty photography but apparently I was so excited I mostly just got video and no pics so these are screen caps cause this site has no good video function. This was a big deal for us because one of the biggest goals of all for this trip was to see a bear in the wild. I had never seen one. More importantly my dad (not on the trip) had never seen one, so I pumped the kids up before the trip "we are hopefully going to see a bear and when we do we're gonna call grandpa and tell him "we saw a bear before you did". And sure enough this was pretty much our first chance to see one and we got not one but four and grizz rather than black bear at that. Huge moment for us, even though we were aways away and surrounded by people.
We went into Yellowstone for the night and the next day (see below) then came back down through Grand Teton towards a little place we were staying at on the west side of Teton Pass in Victor Idaho. On the trip south we stopped in the park to get something to eat and came across a mama fox and three kits. Again shitty screen caps:
So that was fun.
Then rolling out after dinner we saw another grizz (this one a solo male). Didn't get any good pics of him though but by now we were really on a roll.
We also came back the next day to go to the Visitor Center to get the kids passports' stamped because both ways going through GT we were too late in the day to catch the VC. And on the way back from the VC we saw a baby moose nuzzling under its mom.
Also there are mountains there.
So yeah I guess for some of the better park experiences like this the parks will need their own poast and it won't even work to group them together.
TL; DR: Grand Teton is the tits and you should spend more time there than we did.
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We drove past the Grand Tetons like the Griswold family
Purple_Pills
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How many people here have been to Spray Falls, Comet Falls, or both? (at MRNP)
I still haven’t voted, but Mt. Rainier is getting close. I have a proximity bias against it, but the more you get to know it, the better it is. I used to rank Olympic higher, but after exploring both, I can share more accessible cool things at Rainier.
I still haven’t voted, but Mt. Rainier is getting close. I have a proximity bias against it, but the more you get to know it, the better it is. I used to rank Olympic higher, but after exploring both, I can share more accessible cool things at Rainier.