kknowlton,
Well, if population skewed the voting, then The Porcupine Mtns State Park would have been very far down the list but instead it was neck and neck with Letchworth State Park which barely pulled ahead on about the last day of the voting. It's in the middle of over 40 million in population while the entire U.P. of Michigan has a mere less than 300,000 population and the close state on Wisconsin's northern half is also very low in population also. I will agree that more local people who don't have a lot of choices in good state parks will band together voting for the only one they are know or are familiar with and don't have a clue as to what a superb state park really is or looks like.
Notice that NO western, northwestern, or southwestern state parks were in the top ten or even close? Nor were any Gulf Coast or deep south parks ranked high. Hunting Island State Park is on the East Coast and we've been there.
