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Most national parks. Especially Yellowstone is amazing.
You know how the grand canyon always looks kinda crazy in photos? It looks just as crazy in person and it is wild.
It's one of those places where you go and say, "oh okay I get it. This is incredible." Pictures don't do it justice. The physicality of being next to it is hard to describe.
I honestly think the Grand Canyon is even crazier in person. In photos, it looks like a big hole, but in person it is truly a grand hole.
Reminds me of the Parks and Rec line from Ron Swanson. Something about only two things that are acceptable for a man to cry over. I forget the first one but the second was the Grand Canyon. I'm in no way ashamed to say that place got a tear in my eye.
Funerals.
Have you actually been to Yellowstone recently? It's pretty awful now unless you leave the tourist areas.
I went around 2018. Did some research first to determine when was a good time to go to avoid crowds. Spent over a week there, and while some areas and days were quite crowded, it didn't really detract much from the experience, and I still got to enjoy large areas of the park with barely any other humans around.
I went in early 2020 and everywhere had thousands of tourists. Going anywhere took hours because there was always a line of hundreds of cars.
The worst were the Asian tourists that completely ignored lines and shoved their way in front of everyone else as well as ignoring barriers.
Definitely a way different experience than when I went in the 2000s.
How recently does it need to be? I went in like 2018 or 19.