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agesilaus
Explorer III
Nov 13, 2018

Rarely mentioned National Parks and Monuments.

I was replying to another thread when it occurred to me that there are a number of parks that are hardly ever mentioned. I can see why most of the Arizona Indian Ruins parks get scant mention. They ar...
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shelbyfv
Explorer
Nov 14, 2018
ppine wrote:
A good list. There are many more. I do not like to mention them and make them more popular.
I mostly avoid the popular ones except in winter or off season.
Yeah, mixed feelings about that! Nobody wants crowds but there may be an upside to more folks caring about the parks. As OP mentioned earlier, protection may not mean forever. National monuments in particular seem subject to random dismemberment.

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