The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L.L. Bean.

This year, L.L. Bean is joining up with the National Park Foundation,

the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service to help you find your happy place in an amazing system of more than 400 national parks

including historic and cultural sites, monuments, preserves, lakeshores, and seashores

that dot the American landscape,

many of which you'll find just a short trip from home.

L.L. Bean is proud to be an official partner of the National Park Foundation.

Discover your perfect day in a park at find your park.com. There are a million conspiracy theories about people missing or turning up dead in national parks and other public lands, but the National Park Service manages a lot of land.

17 of the parks are bigger than Rhode Island.

Three are bigger than New Jersey. If you combine them all, they'd make up the 14th

largest state. So really, when you break down the numbers, the amount of disappearances,

murders, and accidental deaths are on par with the rest of the country.

Still, a lot of those unfortunate events do happen, and many aren't what they seem.

On today's episode of America's National Parks,

the tragic death of a hiker at Rocky Mountain National Park

that shocked the nation.

This episode may not be suitable for younger audiences.

Here's Abigail Trebue. you. September 29th, 2012.

Harold Hintthorn places A 911 call.

911, what's addressed the emergency?

Hello, my name is Harold Hintorn. 911, what's address the emergency?

Hello, my name is Harold Hidbourne.

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