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Reader Participation Day: Visit Wyoming's National Parks, or Those in Washington State?

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By Kurt Repanshek - July 28th, 2010

Would you want to visit Wyoming's national parks before those in Washington state? Camping at Easy Pass in North Cascades photo by NPS, Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River by Kurt Repanshek.

It was quite a battle last week when we asked whether you would rather visit Utah's national parks or those in California.

Well, here's another head-scratcher: Would you first head to Wyoming and Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, or Washington State with Olympic, North Cascades, and Mount Rainier national parks?

Some might say this is a no-brainer, that you have to see the world's first national park -- Yellowstone. But ... the parks in Washington state are no slouches. Heck, I consider Olympic National Park to be three parks in one: You've got the beaches and Pacific Ocean, the temperate rainforests, and the high country, complete with glaciers. And Mount Rainier and North Cascades offer some incredibly beautiful, and rugged, landscapes.

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Submitted by admin on July 31, 2010 - 1:26am.

I'm prejudiced as I spent 19 yrs living and working in Yellowstone. Now I live in Washington. It's parks are nice, but there is simply no place at all like HOME (YNP.) People used to ask an old Yellowstone ranger when he planned to ask for a transfer. He always said he'd always been there only 35 yrs and had'nt seen everything yet!


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