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Yellowstone and Grand Teton shatter April attendance records.

Zion sees a four hour wait for its most popular hike.

Biden's 2022 budget holds the largest appropriation for the National Park Service ever, an Instagrammer

apologizes for some national park behavior and so much more. I'm Jason Epperson and it's time for

this month's news roundup episode of the America's National Parks

podcast. We begin with what's becoming an almost daily discussion in

national parks, and record-shattering crowd levels.

Both Zion and Grand Teton saw their April numbers skyrocket.

Yellowstone also saw massive numbers in a month where people usually don't visit Yellowstone very often.

Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly told the Billings Gazette,

I predicted a record season, and I think we're on track for that.

With that in mind, the park has hired more seasonal employees plus three of the seven

campgrounds run by the National Park Service are now reservable and of course the five

concessionaire run campgrounds will continue to be reservation only at

some point you've got to look at what the capacity of your staff is,

Shale added.

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