63: Favorite Campgrounds in the National Parks

Exploring the National Parks

Dirt In My Shoes

Science, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Which national park campground is the best? In this episode of Exploring the National Parks, we are doing a full-on WWE-style smackdown! We each picked our top five favorite campgrounds, and we are going to battle it out to see who came up with the best options. We were full-time RVers for three years, so we are very familiar with the national park campgrounds, and we are excited to dive into it today! Join us as we discuss: - The national monuments we both put on our lists - The things we love about each campground we chose - The most unique campgrounds we have stayed at - Some fun and elusive campgrounds you want to check out - Campgrounds you need to put on your bucket list We hope you enjoy this National Park Campground Smackdown episode! Camping is one of the best ways to stay in the parks without spending a ton of money, so we highly recommend it! If you want help planning your trip, head over to DirtInMyShoes.com to get started planning. Don’t forget to complete your task for this week! Head over to our Facebook or Instagram @dirtinmyshoes, leave us a comment, and tell us about your favorite campground in the National Parks! Check out the full show notes here.

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0:00.0	As I was preparing for today's episode, I have to tell you, I've never been more grateful
0:05.7	to be able to do dishes in my own house.
0:08.4	Because I just kept thinking over and over again about all the dishwashing stations
0:12.0	that I've gone into in different National Park campgrounds and how many of them are spider traps.
0:18.0	Yeah, these little closets full of spiders.
0:24.9	This is the Exploring the National Parks podcast with Dirt in My Shoes. My name is Ash and I'm a
0:31.4	former park ranger and the founder of Dirt in My Shoes. I think that the parks are best seen
0:36.2	from the trail and I'm here to make
0:38.1	national park trip planning easy. And I'm John. I carry the kids on the trails,
0:43.2	tell stories, and notice all the things that Ash doesn't care about much, like trees.
0:48.7	Join us as we show you around America's spectacular national parks. We're sharing our
0:53.8	favorite places, fun facts, adventures, and misadventures.
0:57.0	And we'll even throw in a little trip planning.
1:00.0	Let's start exploring.
1:05.0	Today we are doing a full on smackdown.
1:11.6	Oh, WWE style.
1:13.6	Yeah.
1:14.6	Going head to head with our list of our favorite National Park campgrounds.
1:19.6	Yes.
1:20.6	We have not seen each other's list, but we each picked our top five top campgrounds, and then we have a couple other categories too.
1:29.5	But I'm excited to see what you're going to say.
1:32.4	Last time we did a smackdown like this,
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