While the exact number may be a little higher this tallies very much with my experience of US national parks. Walk a few hundred yards and even at the busiest sites you’re basically on your own.
While many people with disabilities can’t go very far beyond their car, they represent a minority of visitors. The vast majority of visitors are people who are theoretically physically capable of walking further but just choose not to.
I don’t get it, but it does make the experience for those of us who are prepared to walk a whole lot nicer!
It's good, everyone gets the experience they want. Old faithful has a parking lot nearby.
I don't know that I'd want to encourage people with little experience in the actual wilderness and not enough interest to read up first to go too far in any case. That's the group that contains the people who think petting the bison is a good idea or who never considered that their cell phone might not work everywhere.
More tourists getting killed just ends up making things worse for everyone, esp the people who get killed.
While many people with disabilities can’t go very far beyond their car, they represent a minority of visitors. The vast majority of visitors are people who are theoretically physically capable of walking further but just choose not to.
I don’t get it, but it does make the experience for those of us who are prepared to walk a whole lot nicer!