How is the budget cut affecting your local park? Check out this story by the Washington Post about Yellowstone: Budget Cut

The story above has great irony, you can find it in the post itself. Here in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, several frontcountry campsites will be closed for the entire 2013 season. Here is the list , it's located towards the bottom of the page.
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It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.-- Horace Kephart