Sitting here at the Lilac Festival this morning, other parks come to mind. Well, to certain meandering minds anyway. The world's first park was quite user-friendly. The only rule seems to have been - don't eat the fruit from one particular tree, no matter how good the marketing department makes it sound. And the park rangers were really tough, armed with flaming swords.
People come to the park quite early.
Sometimes before it even is a park. Those of you who grew up in the 1940s and 50s, as I did, might recall a Disney film called Westward Ho, the Wagons . Colter certainly should have. He had been a member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. The following year he set off on his own to explore the Far West, crossing the Continental Divide and trapping throughout the Tetons.