>>2760695Unironically because of suburbanization and car-dependent development patterns.
1.) local nature has been completely eroded in every major metro area in the entire country (and Canada). Every farm and forest within driving distance of any city has been turned into McMansion suburbs. Someone you may ree because you live in such a McMansion suburb but LARP about being rural. You’re not rural. Most people used to live in cities, and most people do, but cities have been expanded to included these shitty greenfield developments. In the past, you’d live in a city or town and outside the town was farms and woods. Now you live outside the town and the areas outside of your suburban neighborhood is more suburban neighborhood. There are fewer and fewer remote natural areas in our every day lives.
2.) this same suburban development pattern created an appetite for car trips. Driving 10 hours in a car is easy, because every car these days is a climate-controlled living room with surround sound and entertainment. This and further design accommodations that cities make to incentivize car trips (free parking, wider highways, etc.) enable access to these remote parks that don’t (and didnt) have airplane or train access. So, before, you really had to go out if your way to get to a park, now there’s a giant 10 lane highway through the middle of nowhere with perfect road conditions where there are no potholes and you can drive 90 mph the entire time.
Both these things bring out the retards. Essentially, by subscribing to the same car-dependent development patterns that the country used to ruin cities, we’ve also ruined parks.
Why do you think national forests get so much less traffic? It’s because they’re less easy to get to. We are INCENTIVIZING dipshits to flood and crowd the parks because we’re accommodating them.
The solution is to keep doing park permits (because a $2.00 timed entry pass really is enough).
