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Jul 7, 2024
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El Presidente
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Good point. On second thought, I like this list.
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The Wall Street Journal ranked all the National Parks, and here is their Top 10:
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 9:19pm
What a garbage list.
HingleMcCringleberry
Jul 7, 9:21pm
Agree. The two in Texas are nothing special compared to many others.
Dangerous
Jul 7, 9:25pm
RE: Agree. The two in Texas are nothing special compared to many others.
Sparkling Delirium
Jul 7, 9:37pm
Guadalupe Peak is one of the best hikes I have been on.
karatekid
Jul 7, 9:55pm
Guadalupe Mts might be the worst national park I’ve seen.
BYU '80
Jul 7, 10:03pm
That’s like rating restaurants by giving points for being empty.
HenderCoug
Jul 7, 9:21pm
Or the desirability of a single woman by how few dates she’s been on.
Brisco
Jul 7, 10:15pm
Glacier Park has to be in any top ten
Chicago Cougar
Jul 7, 9:21pm
Glacier and Grand Teton are top 5 IMO
letthewookieewin
Jul 7, 9:22pm
Grand Teton is #27
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 9:26pm
Discredits the whole list right there
AF Cougar
Jul 7, 10:00pm
Glacier is #11 on their list.
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 9:25pm
Death Valley is bottom 10
Jericho
Jul 7, 9:23pm
Death Valley? Have they been there?
2FarGone
Jul 7, 9:23pm
Sequoia/Kings Canyon deserves to be in the top five for beauty but its almost
Jay Kay
Jul 7, 9:24pm
Been to 4 of those
OU Cougar
Jul 7, 9:24pm
Arches is otherworldly and amazing. #55 is BS.
rivercitycoug
Jul 7, 9:25pm
I love Arches, but Arches and Zion have become too crowded
AF Cougar
Jul 7, 10:02pm
Great Basin ?
Beggar
Jul 7, 9:26pm
Wheeler Peak and Lehman Cave
AF Cougar
Jul 7, 10:05pm
Great Basin is outstanding. It’s not Top 10, but it is great.
Sandstone Cougar
Jul 7, 10:58pm
Camped and hiked their numerous times over the decades
So it goes...
Jul 7, 11:20pm
I read this article. 50% of the weight in scoring is how crowded the park is.
El Presidente
Jul 7, 9:27pm
Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountain wouldn't even be national parks in Utah
WorfoSAUR
Jul 7, 9:28pm
It’s their actual list, ranking all 63 national parks from first to last.
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 9:32pm
50% weight (by far the highest weight) is crowds. Lower crowds = higher ranking.
El Presidente
Jul 7, 9:35pm
Lower crowds are because they’re not worth visiting
therock
Jul 7, 9:41pm
Not really true, it's often a function of them being hard to get to. Isle Royale
russkiejedi
Jul 7, 10:01pm
Conversely, Zion suffers from being close to Vegas, and Great Smoky Mountains so
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 10:04pm
Weird that it gets 10x the visitors of Shenandoah, which is much closer to DC,
russkiejedi
Jul 7, 10:14pm
It’s close to Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville, plus just densely populated
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 10:18pm
That had to have been funded by local Utahns to keep people away. Wildly false.
blackandblue
Jul 7, 9:30pm
Good point. On second thought, I like this list.
El Presidente
Jul 7, 9:31pm
Groovy, maybe this will help keep more people out of Utahs overcrowded parks...
So it goes...
Jul 7, 9:31pm
It does suck how crowded some of them are now, especially Zion & Arches. It’s
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 9:34pm
We went to arches yesterday and it was busy but I never felt like it was overly crowded.
durandal
Jul 7, 9:56pm
The Mighty Five promotion was way too successful
AF Cougar
Jul 7, 10:07pm
I’ve been to 9/10 (and 54 out of 63). While Isle Royale is utterly outstanding,
Sandstone Cougar
Jul 7, 9:38pm
Glacier is #11, Kenai Fjords is #40, and Glacier Bay is #41. I agree that the
Japan Coug
Jul 7, 9:51pm
It’s about time. The big 5 in Utah are boring. Try these others. Please, go somewhere else 😉
Hank Rearden
Jul 7, 9:39pm
Your emoji ruined a perfectly good post. As is the case with most emojis
Nakedbootleg
Jul 7, 9:55pm
Hahaha two Texas in the top 10. I love Texas but those to places are #35-50 at
A Drew Aitch
Jul 7, 9:45pm
One of those is not like the others.
Cougar Junkie
Jul 7, 9:45pm
My Top 10 in no particular order
homegrown
Jul 7, 9:50pm
I’ve been to 40 national parks incl most on the list. What a terrible list
BYU '80
Jul 7, 9:52pm
I love whoever wrote that article. They are doing the internet correctly.
Nakedbootleg
Jul 7, 9:54pm
Great list. Don't come to Utah, tourists. We're full.
Still Blue
Jul 7, 9:56pm
Any list that doesn’t have Teton National Park in top 10 is not legit.
UNLVcougar
Jul 7, 10:05pm
Also putting Lassen at 6 is absurd. It’s nice, but no top 10.
UNLVcougar
Jul 7, 10:06pm
Our high adventure trip for young men this year was to Big Bend
OGSuperfan
Jul 7, 10:37pm
North Cascade is legit…
Tobias is Blue
Jul 7, 11:17pm
Can you tell me where they ranked American Samoa national park? TIA
SV72 Sale
Jul 8, 12:40am
#34
Japan Coug
Jul 8, 1:22am
North Cascades is very good but not even Top 10 with all of the others out there. I think the ranking is just to drive
lightmann
Jul 8, 12:41am
Lassen Volcanic in Northern California is underrated
RenoCoug
Jul 8, 12:58am
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