National Parks · July 7, 2026
Camp After the Visitors
A small camp, a late hour, and the particular quiet that arrives when the day-use lots go dark.
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The parks are busiest where a car can reach them. After that, the country gets larger and the evening gets simpler: stove, notebook, a tent that has to be right the first time.
I am not interested in performing a wilderness. I am interested in the ordinary work of being out: water, weather, an early start, and leaving the site the way it was found.
This series will keep that scale. One park at a time. One night at a time. The notes stay with Explore, which is to say they stay with me.
