Planning an Outdoor Adventure This Summer? Start Here

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This episode of the Women Who Travel podcast is presented by Travel Wyoming.

Last year, already popular national parks saw a surge of visitors looking to get outside. But as seasoned and new outdoor explorers took to the hiking trails, rivers, lakes, and forests of our national park system, not everyone planned their trip as responsibly and respectfully as the parks and the surrounding communities deserve. To help you plan a trip this summer that keeps you away from overcrowded park sites and drives you deeper into local rural communities, we've tapped two experts who know their way around national parks in this week's special Women Who Travel episode, presented by Travel Wyoming. Joined by Traveler contributor Emily Pennington, who has visited 61 of the U.S.' 63 national parks, and Diane Shober, executive director of Wyoming Office of Tourism, we chat through how to plan wisely (and far enough in advance) to enjoy the best of the National Park Service—and how to look beyond those 63 parks that can sometimes get too much love.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to a bonus Friday episode of Women Who Travel, a podcast from
0:08.9	Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith Carey, and with me as always is my co-host, Fala Eric Kogloum.
0:14.4	Hello.
0:15.6	Last summer, travelers flocked to national parks to varying levels of success, with some parks facing overcrowding concerns while playing host to irresponsible visitors this year with travel across the u.s opening up even more travelers are expected to head out to some of america's most beautiful natural destinations to help prepare you for a national park trip and ensure you're visiting both your park of choice and its surrounding community responsibly. We're joined by Diane Schobert,
0:42.0	executive director of Wyoming Office of Tourism and traveler contributor Emily Pennington,
0:46.7	who has visited 61 of the U.S. is 63 national parks. Thank you both for joining us.
0:52.6	Yeah, thanks for having us. I'm stoked to be here.
0:55.2	Me too. Thanks. To start things off, I'm interested to know how both of you developed your
1:01.0	own relationship with the outdoors. And also, what were some of your own learning curves as you
1:07.0	had more and more adventures? Well, I was born and raised in the great outdoors from
1:12.6	Wyoming and Wyoming is the most least populated state in the nation. So certainly a lot of
1:18.8	wide open space here, raised on a family ranch and went to college at the University of Wyoming.
1:24.6	So I've lived my life in this great wide open space
1:28.1	and took 10 years and lived in Chicago,
1:31.2	but right back here in Wyoming is where I am now.
1:34.2	And every day is an adventure in the great outdoors.
1:37.4	I think one of the most interesting things
1:39.9	about living in the American West
1:41.5	is you do have these beautiful wide open spaces. And so it can be a
1:44.9	weekend, a day trip or a week-long vacation right here in our own backyard. And we have these
1:50.2	great experiences that, you know, you just get to enjoy and they're breathtaking and inspiring
1:56.5	all in the same package. Diane, you mentioned that you had lived in Chicago for 10 years before you went back to these
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