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Keith, I wanted to share with you some impressions we had of Arches and Mesa Verde National Parks. Both parks had outstanding visitor centers which more than adequately captured and explained the park, its history and how the area came into being. Mesa Verde had a fantastic preservation area that was visible behind windows in the center which really made the connection between the visitors and what was going on behind the scenes. The reconstructed ruins were in great shape and seemed to be well supervised with interpretive guides available.
Arches NP was visually stunning. Lots of well maintained and marked trails. I was dismayed to see some of the vandalism as people try to forever memorialize their visit but there is little that can be done about that short of watching everything all the time. We didn't see so many Rangers there other than the ones writing parking tickets but it is a large park with lots of places to roam.
We were very impressed with both parks and somewhat sad we didn't have time to get to Canyonlands NP which was right down the road. Perhaps next time?
Arches NP was visually stunning. Lots of well maintained and marked trails. I was dismayed to see some of the vandalism as people try to forever memorialize their visit but there is little that can be done about that short of watching everything all the time. We didn't see so many Rangers there other than the ones writing parking tickets but it is a large park with lots of places to roam.
We were very impressed with both parks and somewhat sad we didn't have time to get to Canyonlands NP which was right down the road. Perhaps next time?
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Keith, I wanted to share with you some impressions we had of Arches and Mesa Verde National Parks. Both parks had outstanding visitor centers which more than adequately captured and explained the park, its history and how the area came into being. Mesa Verde had a fantastic preservation area that was visible behind windows in the center which really made the connection between the visitors and what was going on behind the scenes. The reconstructed ruins were in great shape and seemed to be well supervised with interpretive guides available.
Arches NP was visually stunning. Lots of well maintained and marked trails. I was dismayed to see some of the vandalism as people try to forever memorialize their visit but there is little that can be done about that short of watching everything all the time. We didn't see so many Rangers there other than the ones writing parking tickets but it is a large park with lots of places to roam.
We were very impressed with both parks and somewhat sad we didn't have time to get to Canyonlands NP which was right down the road. Perhaps next time?
Arches NP was visually stunning. Lots of well maintained and marked trails. I was dismayed to see some of the vandalism as people try to forever memorialize their visit but there is little that can be done about that short of watching everything all the time. We didn't see so many Rangers there other than the ones writing parking tickets but it is a large park with lots of places to roam.
We were very impressed with both parks and somewhat sad we didn't have time to get to Canyonlands NP which was right down the road. Perhaps next time?
and then you get the pork barrel projects and other funding sources to compete with such as federal highways, national trails programs, repair/rehab ! Its the gubberment ! The biggest issue is still the parks do not have the base budget increase they need to hire the rangers and maintenance staff to operate at the staffing levels to protect the resources ! When your competing with DOD and the NPS total budget is a little over a billion $ when one airplane costs $3B or some of the other departments its hard to compete sometimes !
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