I figured you had been to a bunch. I'm about 6 behind you at 15 parks by the age of 30. You better keep visiting, or I'm gonna catch in a year or two!

Now I'm going to die in a car crash tomorrow.

I posted this in the SEC OTB thread... This photographer's site is a great place to check out photos of the parks.

Terra Galleria

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Posted by RogerTheShrubber

Juneau, AK

Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 6:26 pm to Yat27

quote:
I figured you had been to a bunch. I'm about 6 behind you at 15 parks by the age of 30. You better keep visiting, or I'm gonna catch in a year or two!

Now I'm going to die in a car crash tomorrow.

I just want to explore the Ak parks a bit more. I've also got a couple national monuments around, one literally 10 miles away. I'm pretty content with the number I've seen, now going for quality over quantity.

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Posted by Yat27

Austin

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 6:43 pm to RogerTheShrubber

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I'm pretty content with the number I've seen, now going for quality over quantity.

Yeah, but you have to see some quantity to know about quality. My idea of "breathtaking" changed after I become an adult and starting traveling out west.

I still haven't been to any of the Alaska parks, two of the Washington Parks and 3 of the Utah parks.

Any of the Utah parks "must see" besides Zion and Arches?

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Posted by PNW

Northern Rockies

Member since Mar 2014

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 6:43 pm to RogerTheShrubber

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Kobuk Valley

Rarely visited. They get less than 1,000 visits annually. Also, visiting this park is kinda difficult. There are no roads or trails leading to it. So how would you get there?

All the more reason TO visit I suppose.

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Posted by RogerTheShrubber

Juneau, AK

Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 6:46 pm to PNW

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Rarely visited. They get less than 1,000 visits annually. Also, visiting this park is kinda difficult. There are no roads or trails leading to it. So how would you get there?

Fly in. I've got a friend who works for the N.W. Arctic School Dist, and has a summer Sheefish lodge on the Kobuk.

Aniakchak is at the top of my bucket list. It's a national Monument, some years only 20 or so people make it in. It's a huge caldera with a lake, and the lake runs our of the volcano roughly 30 miles to tidewater. I want to raft it out.

I've rafted the Tatshenshini-Alsek twice. 10 day trip. Headwaters are about 120 miles from here.

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Posted by ElderTiger

Planet Earth

Member since Dec 2010

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 7:31 pm to RogerTheShrubber

Without naming them all, about 15.
If you are 55+, be sure to get a lifetime senior pass for $15.00. You AND everyone in your car get in FREE...pays to have an old fart along.

Please note... This is my 1000th post...I'm just getting started!!!!

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Posted by PJinAtl

Atlanta

Member since Nov 2007

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 7:54 pm to PNW

Actual parks:
Everglades
Great Smokey Mountains
Mammoth Cave
Rocky Mountain
Bryce Canyon
Grand Canyon
Petrified Forest
Badlands
Yellowstone
Grand Teton

Other entities under NPS control:
Statue of Liberty
Gettysburg
Andersonville
Jefferson Expansion Memorial (Gateway Arch)
Mount Rushmore
The Mall and monuments in DC
Cedar Breaks

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Posted by Fat and Happy

Baton Rouge

Member since Jan 2013

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 8:02 pm to RogerTheShrubber

I skimmed quickly but I think Everglades and hot springs

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Posted by soccerfüt

Location: A Series of Tubes

Member since May 2013

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 8:02 pm to RogerTheShrubber

Augustus Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site

IWNHI

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Posted by SuzukiGoat

Atchafalaya Basin

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 8:09 pm to PNW

Cant type them all out on the phone...but...for Utah. Rent a jeep and check out spyder mesa while you check out the arches.

If you have the time, stay in Escalante, UT for a nught at the motel. Clean, cheap, and an awesome little town.

My wife and I travel as much as we can afford, the national seashore of texas (if you have a 4x4), yellowstone, and utah are must sees.

The luna mesa is another oddity thats awesome to see.

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Posted by BurasTigah

I'm Bored...

Member since Dec 2005

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 8:15 pm to Jim Rockford

This is easier if I do the ones I still need, I try to visit only by way of motorcycle as long as it is possible, but have done some where that is not possible.

Left to visit:
American Samoa
Channel Islands
Cuyahoga Valley
Gates of the arctic
Glacier Bay
Haleakaka
Hawaii Volcanos
Isle royale
Katmai
Kobuk valley
Lake Clark
Saguaro
Voyageurs
Wrangell-Ellis

I am done with Alaska and have no interest in Hawaii so I won't ever finish my list.

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Posted by soccerfüt

Location: A Series of Tubes

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:03 pm to BurasTigah

Don't sell the Big Island of Hawai'i short. I didn't think I'd like it, as there's very little recorded history there and a fairly active volcano aboard. I was wrong, Mauna Loa is cool, Mauna Kea is very hot and the microclimates all over the island are really interesting.

On Oahu, Pearl Harbor is, well, Pearl Harbor.

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Posted by Libertyabides71

Fyffe Alabama (Yeah the UFO place)

Member since Jul 2013

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:10 pm to LCA131

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Not I, but if that is the case then you would not use the descriptive phrase 'National Park' beside 'tycoon' as it would have nothing to do with it. Nice try. Just admit that you meant aficionado, devotee, maven, etc. and silently thank me. You may have learned something.

He is using it as a casual description like the term from the Computer Games Roller Coaster Tycoon or Zoo Tycoon. You really are an idiot if you want to flame that.

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Posted by adavis

North of I-10

Member since Aug 2007

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:19 pm to PNW

Great Smoky Mountains (TN/NC)
Rocky Mountain (CO)
Grand Canyon (AZ)
Hot Springs (AR)
Cumberland Gap (TN)
Canyonlands (UT)
Arches (UT)
Mt. Rainier (WA)
Petrified Forest (AZ)

I want to see them all. Hoping for Glacier this summer.

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Posted by foshizzle

Washington DC metro

Member since Mar 2008

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:27 pm to PNW

Everglades
Smoky Mountains
Shenandoah
Rocky Mountain
Grand Canyon (4 times)
Crater Lake
Redwood
Lassen
Cumberland Gap
Yellowstone
Grand Teton
Glacier
Zion (four times)
Bryce Canyon
Big Bend (three times - underrated IMHO)
Harpers' Ferry
Mount Rainier
Yosemite

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Posted by rutiger

purgatory

Member since Jun 2007

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:29 pm to foshizzle

I never really kept track, but i did live about a half hour from redwoods national park.

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Posted by HumongousYeti

Member since Jan 2010

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:30 pm to PNW

Grand Canyon (AZ)
White Sands National Monument (NM)
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (OK)
Guadalupe Mountains (TX)
Big Bend (TX)

Headed to Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands this weekend.

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Posted by McLemore

Member since Dec 2003

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Posted on 3/27/14 at 9:40 pm to Jim Rockford

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Banff,
Jasper
Lake Louise
Waterton

these are on my list for this summer. i've technically been in waterton but only at the end of a glacier backpacking trip. i thought the ranger/mountie station at customs was a regular visitor center. they accosted me after a 6-day backcountry hike, looking like a maniacal hobo.

calgary is an easy day drive from my house, so no excuse.

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