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campermom · 08-31-2006, 09:55 PM

What 5 National Park Areas do you want to see some day?

Great Smoky Mountains
Grand Tetons/Yellowstone
Arches/Bryce/Zion/Grand Canyon
Glacier
Katmai/Denali

If I'm lucky, I might get to one in the next 5 years. The rest might have to wait til retirement. You've got to leave something to do, right?

Shannon · 09-01-2006, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by campermom

What 5 National Park Areas do you want to see some day?

Great Smoky Mountains
Grand Tetons/Yellowstone
Arches/Bryce/Zion/Grand Canyon
Glacier
Katmai/Denali

If I'm lucky, I might get to one in the next 5 years. The rest might have to wait til retirement. You've got to leave something to do, right?

I've seen Great Smokey Mountains, Zion and Grand Canyon but would love to go back to all three as all three trips were "whirlwind" trips with Justin's family when we were dating.

Gotta do a cruise someday and hope that might be a way to see a bit of Glacier, Denali, etc.

Want to do a full blown camping and backpacking trip in Yellowstone but never have the forethought and scheduling ability to plan it out far enough in advance.

Want to go back to Big Bend National Park, and to visit Guadalupe Mountains NP for the first time. I could go to Big Bend every weekend if I lived "nearby" (eg. Fort Stockton...hehe...not exactly a short drive, but hey, Texans go the distance to get to places they want to be!)

I'd like to go back to Zion National Park, that was another whirlwind tour that should've had at least a week devoted to it.

And Rocky Mountain National Park I've been to a half dozen times, but if I were rich, I would live in Estes Park and practically live in the park boundaries due to spending so much time there photographing, wildlife-watching, etc.

Ah, to dream...

ploddinTod · 09-03-2006, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Shannon

Gotta do a cruise someday and hope that might be a way to see a bit of Glacier, Denali, etc.

We did a cruise of Alaska's Inside Passage from Seattle, which we felt was a once-in-a-lifetime splurge. We didn't have time to attach the Denali portion onto our trip. :no: But, oh, the beauty......glaciers, ice bergs, whales, bald eagles, sea otters, waterfalls. The list goes on. :cool:

Motorman355 · 09-04-2006, 09:26 AM

1. Crater Lake
2. Glacier
3. Grand Canyon
4. Hawai`i Volcanoes
5. Yosemite :yes:

boyntonhaus · 10-02-2006, 10:32 PM

This summer did Wind Cave, Mt Rushmore, Badlands, Devil's Tower, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. Put 4300 miles on the suburban! Had a great time. Yellowstone is incredible! Took my 2 teenage sons. they loved it. So did the wife. Can't wait to add some more to my list. The Utah canyons area sounds like an interesting place.

rockhill · 10-03-2006, 11:34 AM

1. Dry Tortogas
2. Crater Lake
3. Denali
4. Yellowstone
5. Grand Canyon

in no particular order...

DanInSA · 01-20-2007, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Shannon

Gotta do a cruise someday and hope that might be a way to see a bit of Glacier, Denali, etc.

Do you mean Glacier Bay NP? Glacier NP is in Montana, on the Canadian border, and part of the Glacier/Waterton Lakes International Peace Park. It is an awesome place, especially to a native Texan like myself. It was my first "real" backpacking trip and I loved it so much I was hooked. A buddy and I did a 37 hour straight car ride, 5 day hike, and 37 hour car ride back a couple of years ago. I met fear when we were camping alone one night, in September of a poor vegetation year, and we could see a bear roaming down the hillside for food - from our tent! The valley we were in was the bear hotspot for the entire park at the time. We even had a ranger hike in during the same day just to put signs on the trees warning of black and grizzly bears in the area. Despite being scared out of my mind every time I heard something move, I'd go back there in a heartbeat.

By the way, longtime lurker, love the website.

Shannon · 01-20-2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by DanInSA

Do you mean Glacier Bay NP? Glacier NP is in Montana, on the Canadian border, and part of the Glacier/Waterton Lakes International Peace Park. It is an awesome place, especially to a native Texan like myself. It was my first "real" backpacking trip and I loved it so much I was hooked. A buddy and I did a 37 hour straight car ride, 5 day hike, and 37 hour car ride back a couple of years ago. I met fear when we were camping alone one night, in September of a poor vegetation year, and we could see a bear roaming down the hillside for food - from our tent! The valley we were in was the bear hotspot for the entire park at the time. We even had a ranger hike in during the same day just to put signs on the trees warning of black and grizzly bears in the area. Despite being scared out of my mind every time I heard something move, I'd go back there in a heartbeat.

By the way, longtime lurker, love the website.

First off, WELCOME ABOARD! Always glad to have a lurker come out of the shadows

Good catch on Glacier NP vs. Glacier Bay... truth be told, I'd be thrilled to visit either, so they're appropriately muddled together in my brain. Sadly, I've never even been to Yellowstone or a real visit to the Grand Canyon (vs. flying over it, "driving by" it en route elsewhere, etc.)

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