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yellowstone: national park or national parking lot? 🦬🚗

I woke up at 4 a.m., hoping to see Yellowstone before the crowds. But by 7, the line of RVs at the park gate looked like rush hour in LA. People honking, windows down, yelling about who cut the line — all for a glimpse of “untouched nature.” When I finally reached Old Faithful, it was surrounded by hundreds of tourists holding iPads above their heads. Someone flew a drone over the geyser, another dropped their Starbucks cup in the grass. A ranger sighed, picked it up, and whispered, “This is every day now.” We love to say we’re “connecting with nature,” but it feels more like we’re consuming it. Yellowstone isn’t a wilderness anymore — it’s a theme park for people who want to prove they went somewhere wild without actually leaving comfort behind. #Travel #Yellowstone

yellowstone: national park or national parking lot? 🦬🚗
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I Loved Yellowstone — Until I Saw How Tourists Treat Native Land Like a Theme Park

Yellowstone is stunning, no doubt. But the way people act there is… unsettling. Families climbing over protective barriers. Influencers stepping onto sacred ground for a perfect photo. A guy literally scratched his initials into a rock formation older than the U.S. itself. A park ranger told me something that stuck with me: “People forget this land had meaning long before it had ticket lines.” It made me wonder how much of American tourism is built on disrespect — not just for nature, but for the Indigenous people who protected it long before any of us showed up with cameras. Maybe the real danger to Yellowstone isn’t wildlife. It’s entitlement. #Travel #Yellowstone #RespectNativeLand

I Loved Yellowstone — Until I Saw How Tourists Treat Native Land Like a Theme Park
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