There's a hike I want to take before I get too old or too ouchy.

One small error. The article states Crater Lake gets 44 inches of snow each winter. It gets that much in one storm. Probably meant to type 44 feet.

I feel fortunate but bet there are others here who've seen more of them.

I've seen most of these Parks because my mother was a travel nut. Bet she had seen 50 of these before she died.

Yellowstone is my #1 fav, followed by Yosemite & the Great Smoky Mtns Parks.

But I live in California and have traveled up the west coast to Canada, driven across to Yellowstone and gone through most of the parks in the southwest, more than once. Went to Hawaii a couple of times, too. We’ve always loved hiking, camping and exploring, so the National Parks are natural and wonderful places to do those things.

I didn’t see Chaco Canyon on the list. That may be a monument or historic site [googles]...yeah, it’s a National Historical Park. That was a great trip out into the middle of nowhere down a long gravel/dirt road in New Mexico to a very wide, many miles long canyon filled from bottom to rim tops with ruins and pottery sherds from the "Ancestral Puebloan" peoples. There were so many sherds that you couldn’t avoid stepping on them if you were off the major trails. We spent a week there, had our tent washed out by a summer desert monsoon, loved every minute. One of the guides was named Ranger Cornucopia...seriously, it was on his badge. Big, bushy beard, fierce blue eyes but full of stories, archeology and lore.

Edited for typos.