Lose the RVs and dumpster-diving bears. At these five parks, it s just the wide-open wilds and you.
National parks are big.
And then there are the parks that provide both entertainment and isolation not always at the same time, or in the exact same place, but in these it s possible to have both your parachute leap and your lonely campout. Here are five of the nation s most unused, unusual, or just plain bizarre preserves. It s time to get lost. He came here over a century ago to hunt bison. Now, as I try to traverse the North Dakota park named after him it s a perfect, clear day, and I can see the trail stretching for miles across windswept grasslands my path is blocked by one of the bulkier descendants of the rugged president s quarry.