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The fact on the ground is that if you visit a tiny 100 foot waterfall in Pennsylvania, there will be a parking lot, a $25 entrance fee, a gift shop, a show ever
by mortehu 5y ago
The fact on the ground is that if you visit a tiny 100 foot waterfall in Pennsylvania, there will be a parking lot, a $25 entrance fee, a gift shop, a show every two hours, and security rails around the path. The travel distances between sights most people would want to see are vast, and hence the crowding.
Go to Niagara falls, and there's literally an amusement park.
- dougmwne 5y agoThat one's on the Canadians. Our side is nice little park. I've done a lot of hiking on the east coast and even a managed park with an entry fee and a visitor center with a little movie will have hundreds of miles of wild trails. 1% of it will be for the car tourists with railings, pavement, strollers and small children. Yellowstone for example, for as touristy as the main areas are, has 900 miles of trails. It is incredibly wild. Our protection of public lands is a crowning achievement. We have 7,000 state and national parks covering an area roughly the size of Spain. Sorry you didn't like the park you visited in PA.
- DetroitThrow 5y agoAnd considering the problems he seemingly has with the state of US parks is worse in Europe in those same French national parks, the black forest, the alps... Well, I suppose he already declared crowds weren't an issue in Europe, but I'm surprised to see him bring it up against US parks given the state of the "wilderness" he has been to.
- mortehu 5y agoFor comparison, the city of Oslo has more than 1500 miles of marked and maintained trails, and this isn't even a destination for hiking.