Mount Rainier

[MikeWaters]

You will become a laughingstock if it is generally known that you canceled a vacation over $1200.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

If you're talking about SLC there aren't any national parks in northern or even central Utah. I'm talking about real national parks like Zions, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Bryce, as enacted by Congress, not state parks or national monuments or national forests. NATIONAL PARKS. Within 100 miles of downtown Seattle are Rainier, NOrth Cascades and Olympic NATIONAL PARKS. Utah has more national parks in the state than anyplace except California and Alaska I think but they're all in the southern part of the state.

Vegas is close to those Southern Utah National Parks as well as the Grand Canyon National Park.

[FMCoug]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

You will become a laughingstock if it is generally known that you canceled a vacation over $1200.

There's more to it than that. Work conflicts, new house, etc. And we haven't decided for sure. Also, we've looked at several different routes and I posted that quick like ... the trip we had in mind which included all of the above was more like 7K miles.

From the $ standpoint, we're trying to decide whether to buy trees or go on vacation. As you can imagine, we need lots of trees.

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

How many cities can claim, like Seattle, three national parks within a 100 mile radius of downtown?

Kanab, UT?

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by FMCoug

There's more to it than that. Work conflicts, new house, etc. And we haven't decided for sure. Also, we've looked at several different routes and I posted that quick like ... the trip we had in mind which included all of the above was more like 7K miles.

From the $ standpoint, we're trying to decide whether to buy trees or go on vacation. As you can imagine, we need lots of trees.

If you end up taking the trip, you have to stop the RV in Redding and do dinner with me and goose.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by hyrum

Kanab, UT?

Good call. Any of those little So. Utah towns would work as well.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

How many cities can claim, like Seattle, three national parks within a 100 mile readius of downtown?

My wife's hometown can claim that. Up it to 250 miles and the number goes to six. 300 or so and you get seven.

[BarbaraGordon]

My hometown has a really nice stadium.

[FMCoug]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

My wife's hometown can claim that. Up it to 250 miles and the number goes to six. 300 or so and you get seven.

Seems to me the key word in SU's original post was "cities". Should he have said "major metro area"?

[8ballrollin]

Originally Posted by FMCoug

Seems to me the key word in SU's original post was "cities". Should he have said "major metro area"?

Right. I think he was referring to the fact that from Seattle you can drive 90 miles to a National Park in the morning and be home in time for an evening MLB, NFL or NBA game or world-class dinning.

Not that Panguitch is without its qualities.