What's so cool about that original trip that we took to all the national parks is we didn't

know much, if anything, about these five places before we started, and they all turned out to be just incredible

experiences and so I think that's one of the great things about our National

Park system is there's some incredible places out there and even if you

know a lot about the system just because you haven't heard about it doesn't mean it

can't be incredible. This is the Dear Bob and Sioux Podcast, our stories of Adventures and

Miss Adventures as we travel to all the U.S. National Parks and Public Lands.

I'm Matt Smith.

And I'm Karen Smith.

We're the authors of the Dear Bob and Sioux series of books.

Today we'll be sharing some of our favorite hidden gems in the National Park System.

For those of you who might want to visit some parks that aren't on the top list or swarming with visitors,

in this episode, we're going to talk about our top five parks that

have lower visitation numbers.

That's right.

Although it just occurred to me, Matt, that if we tell everyone about these places they might not be hidden gems any

longer. Are we sure we want to do this? Yeah we've already recorded the podcast

and we have a deadline so yeah we're doing it.

Today we're going to skip the warm up and dive straight into the list and of course at the

end of the episode we'll answer a question from a listener in our mail back.

I'm happy to see that you're all dressed up for our podcast. You've got you've gone from

pajamas to sweat pants. Yes it's an upgrade for sure. They're nice sweatpants.

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