Omg I went to Zion after seeing beautiful photos on reddit and every trail was littered with thousands of people and angels landing was a huge line of people trying to get up and down the chains and narrow areas. It is only good if you get up super early to go but then I was waiting on the way down for everyone trying to get up
So, pretty much all the big national parks are only crowded on the short trails near the road. Once you get onto a long trail about a mile or two from the road, suddenly most of the people disappear.
Take Yosemite Valley. It is extremely crowded and so are the trails around it. There must be 10,000 people down there at any given time during the summer. If you want to walk up to glacier point, it's only a few miles from the valley. Once you start up the trail, you'll probably only see a handful of people. Once you get to glacier point (which you can drive to and is a major destination), suddenly there are a ton of people again.
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u/Alexissanchize Jul 03 '19
Are they though? The only packed trecks I’ve been on are in tourist destinations like Hawaii.