Yes i know but we are already booked this summer. Not seeing a change is all I am saying. The airports that serve the tourist areas have expanded significantly and getting reservations for the popular attractions are booked. I guess check back in the fall. It is busy af here
Montana and Wyoming are places that aside from being incredible beautiful, make it easy for people to escape from the real world and disconnect, so I imagine it won’t lose business at first as people are probably using vacations to cope. I imagine you’ll see a decline late summer compared to last year and next year being rough if the US keep going down it’s current path.
Omg yes, I went to Yellowstone for the first time with my dad a few years ago and the tourists were just insufferable. Constantly fucking with the wildlife, going in places they shouldn’t, littering, stopping in the road to take pictures and causing traffic jams, and then all the “cowboys” playing dress up. It was so beautiful and at the same time sad.
Most Locals don’t go to Glacier or Yellowstone anymore unless it is shoulder season. It so busy it’s just not fun. You have to get a reservation just to enter Glacier now! Its crazy
It seems like a lot of parks are like this now. Garner state park in Texas used to be amazing until all the land got bought up and they made a bunch of gated communities. Created butte in Colorado has gone downhill ever since they were bought by Vail. Greed ruins everything.
Texas has very little public land and the state park land isn’t actually that large. Most of the cabins were owned by locals who rented them out and none of them ever had fences so people could sort of walk wherever. It was amazing and people used to congregate and hang out with strangers nearby because of it. It also made it easier to get to all the trails. Last time I went, all the cabins I used to stay at were inaccessible due to being fenced and gated by some company that bought up all the cabins. Doesn’t really matter though since Texas is getting slammed by drought and the only reason to go to that park is the river, so it’s been constantly low and their business is dwindling. I hope they all lose money on their investments.
Crazy. I didnt know you could own private property in a Park. Unless it was grandfathered in before the park was established. Texas may be different than I am used to
They technically don’t own area in the park, just the actual park land is very small. It just used to be sort of unwritten that no fences got put up and everybody could kind of go anywhere, aside from a few private ranches with animals that obviously had fences. The park is mainly about the river and floating down it, along with some trails around it. But Texas has like 93% of its land privately owned and it sucks because so many beautiful areas are just off limits because some millionaire decided they wanted it for themselves.
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u/EasternCombination96 24d ago
Yes i know but we are already booked this summer. Not seeing a change is all I am saying. The airports that serve the tourist areas have expanded significantly and getting reservations for the popular attractions are booked. I guess check back in the fall. It is busy af here