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| Above, a park ranger is directing traffic away from a mother bear and cub at Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It is very hard to enjoy a national park when thousands of people are "getting away from it all" at the same time and overrunning them. That's why I prefer visiting them during the off-season.
This overrunning of the national parks are causing problems and The Manual has an article on how park rangers are dealing with the hordes.
They begin the article with:
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the only and safest ways to be around other people and have something to do was to venture to the great outdoors. Families and friends packed up their bags and headed off for their dream national park trip all while staying safe from spreading the virus. However, it would appear that the crowds that didn’t set off last summer planned trips for the summer of 2021, which added up quickly. The U.S. national parks have become so crowded in fact that park rangers have had to take measures to ensure public safety while protecting the parks at the same time.
To read more, go here.
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