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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

National Parks Week: Discovery Tree

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

We visit one of California’s longest-running tourist attractions: A giant stump that helped spark the movement to preserve the state’s natural places. For more unusual stories, lists, and offbeat itineraries, check out the Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide to the National Parks.

Transcript

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Hey, everybody.

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So all this week we have been exploring and celebrating the national park system.

0:39.6

We looked at this legal loophole in Yellowstone, where you might be able to commit a murder.

0:46.2

We peered into a seemingly bottomless well in Arizona. We discovered a new species.

0:52.8

You know, anyone who spent a decent amount of time in a national park can tell you they are pretty amazing places.

0:59.8

As you probably know, national parks are also having a bit of a crisis right now.

1:04.7

Besides the recent rounds of cuts to funding, the national parks have also been facing a different kind of problem for over a

1:12.6

decade. Too many people. The national parks saw a record number of visitors last year, and most of them

1:19.8

are going to the same small parts of the same parks. They're lining up bumper to bumper,

1:25.7

hoping to experience the beauty of nature through the car window.

1:29.4

And so the parks are in this very difficult situation.

1:32.7

They are both under-resourced and sometimes being loved to death, which brings me to their less glamorous cousin, state parks.

1:48.0

Because here's the thing, often right next door to that very famous overfilled national park is a state park that are sometimes just as incredible,

1:54.8

but a lot less appreciated and hence a whole lot less crowded. So today we are taking a little bit of a cheat

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