When we first started our year-long mission to visit all 59 national parks in the U.S., we were fairly proud of "our style" of visiting the parks. We backpacked, traveled lightly, avoided souvenir shops, and almost always took the path less taken. We thought this was the right and only way to visit a park.

But by the time our year was up, we were singing a much different tune. We met so many other park visitors, from nearby and far away, who visited the parks in all sorts of different ways. Some came by tour bus, some came by train, some came by station wagon.

Listen to this episode of the podcast to hear our thoughts on the "right" and "wrong" ways to visit a national park.

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