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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just thinking about this. A few months ago, we attempted to plan a trip out to Glacier NP, Yellowstone and Grand Teton and it was horrifically expensive, when accounting for a rental car, flights, and lodging -- camping is out of the question -- we do not have the equipment plus we are flying. Also camping sucks). I couldn't find lodging within these parks so these were all at places in the gateway communities like West Yellowstone and West Glacier. And even then, was looking at over $400/night for some Best Western. To add on to this, you need day use reservations for like each area of Glacier National Park and we couldn't score those for the days we wanted (yes I know we could get them the day before or go before the gates open).

I know lodging in and nearby these parks can get expensive - I've been to all of them before, several times, but we wanted to bring the kids now that they're older and can tackle some of the big hikes. The reservation system is annoying because it takes all spontaneity out of the equation - if it's 50 degrees and pouring rain on the day you have your Many Glacier reservation and wanted to hike Grinnell Glacier, well, too bad.

Do you think visitation is ever going to go down? I know it's been up during the covid years, which made sense. But now that the world is open (and has been for years), and everyone can travel pretty much everywhere. You'd think it would go down.

[b]We opted for an Iceland/Ireland trip instead, and it's actually cheaper which is crazy because it used to be doing a domestic trip to the national parks was a budget vacation. Not so much anymore. Hotels in Iceland were cheaper than that Best Western example I gave above. [/quote][/b]

We are park's family and did this too.  Traveling to see NPS got so expensive.[/quote]

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