I love Arches, but Arches and Zion have become too crowded

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Jul 7, 2024
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Bryce is probably my current favorite of the Utah parks

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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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