>>2028394>pays a park entrance fee>pays to reserve a campsite>pays for a permit to walk the trail>freeFor all the shit I just gave Americans though, their wilderness is fucking WILD. Like, "walk for days without seeing anyone else" wild. "Bring a compass and GPS and cache water to explore it" wild. TV and movies only show big cities, but there is so much nature in the US that Europoors have no idea about.
That is not the situation in Western Europe. Tiny towns almost everywhere, manned huts serving hot food, lots of infrastructure like cable cars and bridges and stuff. /out/ culture there is definitely more around the day trip, or sleeping in a hut. Quite often, you're only slightly less cucked than the US - you don't have to pay to walk the trail, but camping or making a fire is often not allowed.
Northern Europe, on the other hand, with their tradition of right to public access, means you can walk anywhere, and if you go far north enough, there are no people. The mountains are kinda flat though, so comparatively few people bother.
