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have you ever thought you might not make it home from a trip to a national park nobody does I mean
unless it's the 1980s you listen to The Cure too much you wear only black and your parents forced
you to go but most people don't think they're gonna die on a trip to a national park but it
does happen the United States is home to some of the most beautiful national parks in the
world these Parks can be fun but they can also be dangerous every year people get croaked at these
Parks from various causes drowning Falls medical emergencies auto accidents America's national
parks welcomes millions of visitors every single year but some of them don't make it home alive
the national park system isn't just the big national parks like arches Yosemite Big Bend the
Great Smoky Mountains they have historic sites Recreation areas national forests and National
seashores newly released data collected by the public risk management program from the National
Park Service shows that between 2014 and early April 2023 over 2 600 visitors have died in the
national parks of those 204 died in 2022 alone the deadliest year was 2019 actually it's uh tied with
2017 but the record is 320 dead in one year today we're looking at which 10 of these places are used
statistically most likely to catch an early dirt nap got it get it good let's take a look foreign
number 10 Zion National Park Utah Zion National Park is in southern Utah not too
far from St George if you're ever gonna go see national parks and you want to let's say knock
out a bunch in a week I would go here you got Zion right there not too far away you
got Bryce Canyon and then you have Canyonlands National Park you've got Capital Reef National
Park those are all in southern Utah if you want to cross over the border into Arizona
Northern Arizona you have the Grand Canyon so yeah that's a great trip Zion National Park
averages about 4.5 million visitors a year this is a great place to hike if you want to up your
Instagram game this is one of the best spots to go to from 2014 to 2023 Zion National Park
saw 43 deaths 22 of them were from Falls and eight were from environmental problems they
say environmental issues which would be hypothermia heat stroke things like that
Number Nine Grand Teton National Park Wyoming Grand Teton is another place that's just
beautiful if you go there in the winter I think it's a little bit better I've been through there
twice in the summer and about three times during the winter and yeah the winter it's just it's a
beautiful place I mean it's not like the Summer sucks or anything like that I just prefer the
winter there a little bit better the good news is they don't have bear attacks every summer so
that's always good that actually is very very rare in National Parks or even in the United
States bear attacks are extremely rare but for some reason everyone seems to think that they're
going to go out in the woods and a Grizzly's gonna pull them away up there near the Canadian border
you have Glacier National Park which isn't on this list they had a weird story going back
some years I think it was 1966. they had two bear attacks in one night fatal bear attacks and one
night different parts of the park so it wasn't the same bear had just you know freaked out and
started killing people two separate people were killed by bears and they hadn't had one in like
the 30 years prior and I don't think they've had one since anyway Grand Teton sees about
4 million visitors a year from 2014 to 2023 they had 48 deaths 21 of those were from Falls
number eight Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado the Rocky Mountain National Park is different from
the Rocky mountains the Rocky Mountains are huge the Rocky Mountain National Park is a section of
It Rocky Mountain National Park is in between Fort Collins and Boulder Colorado to the west of both
of them this is another one that if you've got a good camera you could up your Instagram game quite
a bit here every time I've gone there I've been amazed at the scenery but I just look at some of
the equipment some of these photographers have in different areas and they're just trying to
get that perfect shot it's like I want to do that but I know there's not a whole bunch of money in
it I don't know some do make some good money what the ones that do go to places like this just they
wait all day to get the perfect shots I'm more of a camera tech nerd than a photographer Rocky
Mountain National Park sees about 4.2 million visitors a year they've got some great hiking
trails too if you like to hike you already know about it but if you're just getting into hiking
this this has got a lot of different Trails for you some of them might be a little too hard for a
beginning hiker but it's well worth doing a couple miles here Rocky Mountain National Park sees about
4.2 million visitors every year and from 2014 to 2023 they saw 49 deaths 18 of them were from Falls
number seven number seven is a twofer you got Mount Rainier and Denali in Alaska let's start
with Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state if you don't know where Mount Rainier is
it is south of Seattle a little closer to Tacoma if you look to the South and see a mountain peak
that's it if you do ever go visit here and you go by State Route 706 between Ashford and Longmire
there's a little restaurant in place called The Copper Creek Inn stop in there great food it's a
nice little oh it's pretty cool it's almost like one of those country stores and restaurants like
tucked in off the road in the woods it's really nice anyway Mount Rainier between 2014 and 2023
saw 51 deaths 19 of them were from Falls and 12 were from environmental issues like I said earlier
hypothermia things like that froze to death part two of number seven Denali Alaska Denali National
Park is one of the best national parks we have and it's really not visited that much they see
less than 300 thousand visitors every single year it's huge it's beautiful and hardly anyone
goes there they'd probably have a lot more deaths if they had more people visiting but they don't
they add a total again just like Mount Rainier 51 death 18 of them were from environmental issues
number six Yellowstone National Park Wyoming Montana and Idaho it touches all of them this
one is huge Yellowstone is known for its geysers it's bison and of course the most famous geyser of
all Old Faithful it is also home to Yogi Bear isn't that amazing Yogi Bear used to live in
Yellowstone the cartoon remember that just kidding he was actually from Jellystone National Park the
fictional Jellystone National Park in case any of you are trying to look it up on the list of
national parks every year you hear about someone dying doing something they weren't supposed to
in Yellowstone National Park a couple years ago a guy decided he wanted to get closer to one of
the geysers and he fell in besides being very hot it's very acidic he dissolved and I I don't know
when we're gonna see someone killed by one of the Bison but every single year someone gets off the
little Trail and decides to take a selfie with one and then they like get launched in the air
or they get run over or something like that follow the rules people oddly enough Yellowstone is not
the most visited national park it's one of the most famous ones but it's actually seventh when
you list all the big ones you know like the Grand Canyon Yosemite all those places it's number seven
on that list Yellowstone only gets about 4 million visitors every single year and between 2014 and
2023 they had 52 deaths 12 of those were from motor vehicle crashes and 12 were from medical
and natural causes like someone had a heart attack they got run over by Buffalo something like that
number five Sequoia in Kings Canyon California Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park is like
the often overlooked middle child to Yosemite and Death Valley National Park they don't really
see a lot of people but it's pretty cool place I've been to this one it's uh I was
pretty cool I looked because you got Yosemite right up the road and that you know that's
going to get all the attention Sequoia only sees 1.3 million visitors every single year
but they got a good amount of deaths between 2014 and 2023 they saw 75 deaths 25 of those
were from Falls and 13 were from drownings they got some fast-moving Rivers up there
Number Four The Great Smoky Mountain National Park North Carolina and Tennessee the Great
Smoky Mountains are amazing whenever someone's talking about Mountains they're always want to
talk about the Rocky Mountains or something like that but the Appalachian Mountains in
my opinion are just as impressive the Great Smoky Mountain National Park normally sees
about 11 million visitors but in 2021 they saw 14.1 million visitors it is the most visited
national park we have 2022 they dropped down to 13.5 million visitors but the Great Smoky
Mountain National Park from 2014 to 2023 saw 80 deaths 29 of those were motor vehicle crashes
number three Yosemite National Park in my opinion this is the one that everyone should have on their
bucket list absolutely now I said Zion's pretty cool and there's a lot of really cool national
parks Yosemite is just it's otherworldly I think Yosemite National Park Seas just a
little under 4 million visitors a year that's a lot lower than I thought it was going to be
it is kind of out in the middle of nowhere by itself I mean San Francisco is a good distance
way like three and a half hours and LA's like eight hours away I mean the closest real City
to Yosemite National Park is probably Modesto and yeah nobody goes to Modesto if you ever do
go people will tell you this but make sure if you're gonna Hike It Go to the John Muir Trail
go up the back a half dome you'll be able to see all these waterfalls ah it's amazing but
yeah Yosemite sees almost 4 million visitors a year from 2014 to 2023 they had 126 deaths 45 of
those were from Falls a lot of people climbing up stuff they probably shouldn't in Yosemite
number two the Grand Canyon National Park Arizona Grand Canyon you know this one surprises me at how
few people go see it because I really thought it would be the number one National Park I really did
I just thought so many people go there I've been there two or three times once when I was younger
the thing about the Grand Canyon it is very cool to see you get there but after about 20 minutes
you're done with the Grand Canyon I was young and we took that Mule Train I don't even know
if they'd do it anymore ride the mules to the bottom of the canyon I was about sick of that
mule after about 10 minutes I was hoping to get attacked by the local indigenous people I
actually said something I forget what I said like are we gonna be attacked and killed by the locals
I forget what I said but I said it out loud and the uh guide was right next to me he goes well
I haven't killed you yet have I I guess he was a local indigenous person only about five million
people visit the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona every year from 2014 to 2023 134 people
died at the Grand Canyon of that 42 of them are for medical reasons heart attacks Strokes things
like that Emma over abundance of elderly people there I've noticed so maybe they just you know
their time was up when they were there all right before we get to number one don't forget we have
another Channel called on this day there's a link for that down below all right on to number one
and number one Lake Mead National Recreation Area Nevada this one is right outside of Las Vegas it's
kind of part of the Colorado River system it's where Hoover Dam is and you've probably seen it
in recent news because the lake is going dry well we just had a whole bunch of rain so it might be
filling up again but it got to record low and they started finding bodies there bodies that had been
there for decades you know your first thought is this was mob related you know the mafia has been
dumping people there for years no of the people they found only a couple of them they think had
mob ties the rest were just people that were drunk and boating and disappeared I mean one
guy was found in a drum like a big oil drum they actually pulled him out and his clothes didn't
deteriorate over the decades he was put in there like in the mid 70s and they tracked his clothes
back to a local Kmart Lake Mead because it's a big place for boating fishing and you know people
trying to get away from the desert heat it sees a lot of people seven million people visit Lake
Mead National Recreation Area every single year from 2 2014-2023 145 people died 47 of them drown
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