Posted on 06/12/2022 6:15:10 AM PDT by abb
Poor headline and poor followup research. The Yellowstone Park region was hit with a significant winter storm this past Memorial day. Some areas adjacent to the park were hit with 2+ feet of snow, forcing some campers to abandon their RVs/campers and struggle to get out. Only the well equipped or foolish would venture into the region with such a storm hitting.
I was up in the Idaho mountains in Memorial weekend. Saw lots of empty campsites. It rained the entire weekend, which probably had a lot to do with it.
“Gas prices and huge vacation/room/covid/food inflation had no impact on the East coast of Florida over Memorial Day. It was sellout city”
Same here on the Texas Gulf Coast, put I put it down to people taking shorter more local vacations and avoiding longer more expensive trips to places like Yellowstone.
Agreed,
Gas prices are high but
‘Time is Short!’
.
And I gotta Explore!
Goes like, slavery was ended when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. It took two months to get the word to Texas, because the South's internet lines were cut by the North. As a result, Pony Express riders carried the message, reaching Texas on June 19th.
I thank God that my then-8 YO grandson said, "Opa, there was no internet during the Civil War." He was the first, of a very few, to refute my joke.
The statistics are useless unless one can compare it to other years and factors. Perhaps the numbers were way up in 2021 since a much smaller number of people went in 2020 due to COVID.
Ignoring the park rules... "Yellowstone Visitor Has Died After Bison Gored And Tossed Her"
Heck...maybe I'll take a COVID cruise...
I don't think it's a fair comparison,
Yellowstone National Park is remote enough that any family making the trek is going to pay substantially higher for gas prices than one in Florida driving to a beach.
Local confirmation:
I have a usual drive from home to see mother here in central Texas that takes about 1.5 hours each way. It’s a fairly busy farm to market road in central Texas. I’ve been driving this route for 30+ years. Always busy with truck and regular traffic especially on the weekends.
Yesterday was rather bizarre. There was hardly any traffic in either direction. 3 hour round trip and it was shocking how little traffic we encountered.
Joe’s destruction of the nation is moving at full speed.
$5.00 a gallon and up for gas and diesel will do that.
Welcome to Minimal World, the Biden version.
Their plan is working
Yeah no one wants to sit in traffic jam waiting for pic of buff when fuel is 6 bucks a gallon.
IMHO a lot of vacation resorts are going to suffer this Summer with the big decline in visitors.
You’re doing it wrong. Biden stickers car people pet the buffalo, “coexist” car people should play with bear cubs and wolf pups.
Speakin’ of which...
...ya know why the “t” in “coexist” is The Cross of Jesus Christ?
Because He always has the Final Say.
There’s something you can tell the “coexist” crowd.
my youngest graduates college this year, hopefully. Those canyons out there and in Utah are nice, 117 one afternoon
I need to get a trip to the park on the books sometime in the next couple a three years; I need to take my kids to see the grandeur of the place.
Gonna have to be between early June and mid-August, tho; the school schedule has shrunk the kid’s summer by three weeks since I was young. We didn’t used to go back until September; the kids, now, are back before mid-August; I think it’s the 11th this year.
You never know on this stuff. After 2+ years of bogus Covid mitigation policies people maybe ready to rumble to some degree if their travel plans aren't quashed by health experts
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