How many U.S. National Parks have you visited? (Tell us which ones in the forum.)

@shortman More National Forests than Parks here, but I also don’t recall them all. We were kids.

@lordbowen I learned the hard way that when the sign at Crater Lake says DO NOT GO PAST THIS POINT you had better pay really close attention.

This was in the winter - and they have like a viewing window set up at the end of what becomes a long snow tunnel (near the lodge) and the window at the end actually opens, and there is a shelf outside the window where others have surely trod before . . . but the sign says NO.

Trust the sign.

@Pavlov Did you fall down and go boom?

@lordbowen

@Kyser_Soze I didn’t realize there was so few national parks.

@Kyser_Soze thanks. I was going to go look this up, but now I don’t have to. Would of been helpful on the front page, meh.
/giphy hint hint

@TheCO2 Lots of other federal land, state parks, etc. I used to live in Idaho and we had parks all over the place, some were huge. Just not federal.

@Kyser_Soze Thanks for the map! Helped me remember how many national parks I’ve been to. Thanks to the wonderful healthcare system where the almighty buck is more powerful than giving the chemo with less damaging side effects, I have permanent memory loss. Wait, what was the topic…? Parks, that’s right. I like parks!

@capguncowboy Yup. Most anyone who’s been to Yellowstone and spent a little time there would agree.
Another VERY amazing place right out of the park, in Cody Wyoming, is the best (BEST) museum we’ve ever seen. Anyone that goes to Yellowstone Park has to stop in at the Buffalo Bill Museum. We tend to stop at funky little museums, rock shops, whatever in our travels & thought this would be another strange little museum. We were wrong.
The museum in Roswell was the most funky!

@currawong I was with my first wife in 1975 when we arrived at the Grand Canyon after dark. Motels were full so we were going to turn around and leave. She got out a film camera to take a picture. I told her it wouldn’t work because it was dark and she said “Yes it will, I have a flash!”

@Kyser_Soze
/giphy traveling light

@fultonmartin …so Wikipedia says there are only 59 national parks. Either you are lying or Wikipedia is lying.

@elimanningface The Ironbutt thing is a stamp collecting quest, so any National – Park, Monument, Battlefield, Seashore, etc that has a stamp is fair game.

@melwin hmm…in high schools, most students score an 85 or above on multiple choice exams, if you include their first and second answer choice.

There are 59 national parks. It says it right on there site.

@elimanningface Yes, there are 59 areas designated as national parks. If you include all the national historic sites, national monuments, national scenic riverways, etc. then there are 413 total in the National Park Service.

@melwin agreed in the same vain that a man who is 5’10" tall is a little over 7’0" tall if he stretches his arms above his head. Qualifiers are fun and can make things possible.

@Officemonkey become a yogi and you can!

@elimanningface
Do they have wild Berras in Yosemite?

1. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

2. You can observe a lot by just watching.

3. It ain’t over till it’s over.

4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.

5. No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

6. Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

7. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

8. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

9. We made too many wrong mistakes.

10. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

11. You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.

12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

13. I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

14. Never answer an anonymous letter.

15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

16. How can you think and hit at the same time?

17. The future ain’t what it used to be.

18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

19. It gets late early out here.

20. If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.

21. We have deep depth.

22. Pair up in threes.

23. Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.

24. You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

25. All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

26. Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

27. Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

28. He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.

29. It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

30. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.

31. I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

32. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

33. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

34. In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

35. I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

36. I never said most of the things I said.

37. It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

38. If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

39. I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.

41. Take it with a grin of salt.

42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were overwhelming underdogs.

43. The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

44. Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

45. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.

46. You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.

47. I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.

48. If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.

49. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.

50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t know any.’ They want me to make one up. I don’t make ’em up. I don’t even know when I say it. They’re the truth. And it is the truth. I don’t know.

@Officemonkey you can. I looked at IT jobs in the park, and there’s all sorts of other support for the amenities there.