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My wife and I have decided to take a 4 to 5 day trip to a national park next year. What park do you recommend and why?
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I've always wanted to go to Yosemite. You should watch the Ken Burns special on the National Parks. I believe it's on Netflix.
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Isn't Yosemite on fire?
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Depends on what you like to do there.
Yellowstone is always the most popular choice I would assume. I've never been there.
Denali is popular in Alaska (and expensive as hell, you'd want two weeks in Alaska to make it worth while anyways)
I would like to visit the Rocky Mountains some time.
What I have visited is:
-Smokey Mountains
-Mt. Rainier
-Acadia in Maine
-Redwood, north of San Fran
Mt. Rainier was probably the most cool for me, but thats because I like hiking and my friends and I hiked a portion of the mountain. There's alot of cool ones and ones that are meh. But it also depends on what your interests are. If you love mountains, seek out one where those are plentiful. If you like trees, Redwood.
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Yep, should be out next year though 
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I've been to Yellowstone, beautiful. Grand Teton is very nice too.
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Rocky Mountain national park
Yellowstone
Glacier national park
Yosemite
Denali, actually any national park in Alaska would be awesome but expensive to get to
Any of these would be home runs
edit: Damn, I forgot about Redwood & Ranier. Those above were just off the top of my head
Yellowstone
Glacier national park
Yosemite
Denali, actually any national park in Alaska would be awesome but expensive to get to
Any of these would be home runs
edit: Damn, I forgot about Redwood & Ranier. Those above were just off the top of my head
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I've always wanted to check out Utah too. E.g. Arches, Zion etc. Denali would be fucking awesome as well. One of these days I want to get a RV or something and spend a few months hitting a lot of that stuff out west. I hope to pull that off in the next five years or so.
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Any of you ever been to Zion? Looks fucking amazing:
https://www.google.com/search?q=zio...&biw=1920&bih=1022&sei=H6EoUtqoF6e-sASwqoGQDA
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Yellowstone...You wont regret it
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Zion or Bryce.
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Denali is fucking awesome, I went at the end of May. Even though it was still pretty snowy and there weren't many animals out it was still a trip of a lifetime. It reminded me a lot of Colorado, just much bigger
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I've never been to Zion but I go to Moab area to go rock climbing and camping a few times a year. Arches NP is cool and there is some good canyoneering around there too, but for hiking it is not as great as mountain-y areas IMO.
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I think we're leaning towards Yellowstone. Was there when I was younger but that was 20 years ago. Is it possible to do Yellowstone and The Tetons in 5 days? I'd like to see some mountains too.
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Yosemite is the best. But you have to be ready to backpack to gtfo the valley.
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Redwood and ranier are kinda meh.
Sequoia is da shit. And there is nowhere else in the north america like the olympic NP
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I was thinking more about getting up there w/ my bike. Moab been on the list for a long time.
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I wanna get to Sequoia too, the trees are amazing. I'm gonna try to germinate some sequoia seeds this fall
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I've been to Alaska three times (my sister lived in Anchorage for three years, so I had free lodging, which is the most expensive part of being in Alaska, though everything there is more costly than anywhere in the lower 48 besides NYC it seems) and I never went to Denali. Not once. Its about a 4 hour drive to Denali and of course prices to stay around there are expensive as well. I went for 2 weeks with my family and the closest we got was a good 2 hours away still. We mostly just got views of McKinley (locals call it Denali) from a distance.
Mostly we spent our time on the Kenai, and around Portage in the Chugach State Park. Glaciers are an awesome sight to see as in snow in July. But yeah, if you could travel for a month in an RV, its probably worth it going everywhere you can in that state.