Nice blog, the layout is nice and clean. I bookmarked it.
I've always wanted to visit every National Park. If you guys come northwest, I would highly recommend Glacier, Grand Tetons, Crater Lake, and Mount Lassen.
Enter Yellowstone at your own risk....I'm sure many people enjoy it, but we found that it wasn't for us when we went last year. We were hitting it at the end of the season and expected it to not be that crowded, but we were big time wrong. We had planned on camping in Yellowstone for a few days, and were coming off a great overnight in Glacier. The park itself if amazing, but it is just so crowded that you spend all of your time sitting in traffic. Every time an elk, bison, or bear is spotted, people just stop in the road and get out to take pictures with no consideration to others. This starts a chain reaction with more people stopping because they see someone else stopped. 90 percent of the jams, by the time we got to the front, there was no wildlife and people were just standing around wondering why everyone was stopped. The management of the campgrounds, which is handled by a contractor, was pretty poor. The park employees at the gate cannot give any information about vacancies because the park itself doesn't run the campgrounds. So you drive to a campground and find that it is full, and the campground attendants have no way of communicating with other campgrounds. We ended up on a wild goose chase; we entered the park right as the gates open and left 8 hours later, hightailing it for Grand Tetons just to the south. A different company runs the campgrounds there and they were great. The parks are close enough where you could camp in Grand Tetons and take day trips to Yellowstone, but there is a lot to see in Grand Tetons too.
