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| Above, Yosemite National Park has had the largest number of missing persons, about 40 to 45, since the National Park Service was established in 1916. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
This past summer, I have read many news reports of people getting killed, in one way or another, in our national parks from coast to coast.
One thing we rarely hear about: people who have vanished in our national parks without a trace.
How Stuff Works has an article about how people have visited a national park, but never seen again. Its title: "Hundreds Have Vanished from National Parks. Is Bigfoot to Blame?"
It begins with:
National parks are a source of pride for Americans. They provide beautiful, wild places to explore and reconnect with nature. But unfortunately, sometimes there's a dark side to these historic places. One of those is that since the National Park Service was established in 1916, more than 1,000 visitors have disappeared while visiting a park, often without a trace. And because there is no federal-level database tracking how many people have gone missing from these federal lands, it's very difficult to pin down an exact number of the missing.
To read more, go here.
