National Parks draw us in for so many reasons. The trails, the adventure, the wildlife, seeing the lands that are untouched, are like taking a step back in time and seeing how it's always been. National parks attract all types of people,

the adventurers, hikers, climbers, sightseers, families, and friends and couples from around the country and the

while each park you visit is vastly different from the next,

you may have noticed a similar theme among them all.

Have you ever stepped into a visitor center in one park

and thought, huh, this looks exactly

like a visitor center I've seen in another? Have you ever noticed that the park signs,

road signs, and campgrounds, while in completely different landscapes, all look the same as the other parks.

That's because years ago, national parks almost died, and a billion dollar revitalization project saved them and made them into what you see today.

Welcome to National Park After Dark. Well, this is different. This episode is so different than most I've ever done.

And it all kind of stemmed from I was trying to think of a topic to write about, and I was thinking a haunted hotel because we haven't done that in a while.

And then I was just thinking about hotels and I was researching them. And I was like, wow, there are so many really beautiful hotels inside of national parks.

And I noticed that, I mean, you don't go inside of a national park and see like a day's in.

No offense to days in.

No offense. I mean, they're great when you're on the side of the road

and you need somewhere to like hop in

and you need a bed for the night.

But National Parks don't have anything like that and they're all, they seem very purposeful. They're designed within the landscapes and I just thought like why are all of the most beautiful buildings that you see?

They're all within national park boundaries or the most interesting ones happen in national parks.

Like you see they have massive timber lodges, they have chalays that make you feel like you're in the Swiss Alps, they have these luxurious buildings that take you back to the Victorian era.

Like there has to be a story behind why and more than it just being a tourist

destination. Mm-hmm well I remember for the and I will not be able to remember his name,

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