This post is nothing more than a forewarning for those beginning to make their vacation plans for various US park and recreation areas. This summer visitation expectations were to exceed any previous seasons. While you might take the positions that some passengers on a ship took once in believing they have crossed this ocean many times before and that there is nothing to be concerned about, about a few icebergs.
As for the current staffing, as an example the Visitor Center I work out of is staffed by one (1) permanent park employee that is supported by 36 summer seasonals. Some of these having more then 4 decades of seasonal work. The typical visitor is very unprepared when arriving in a park and seek campground sites filled more than 10 hours before and delayed entry due to 3 to 4 hour wait to get through the entrance stations.
Always good to have a Plan B.
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