Last year, outdoor site Outforia drew on National Park Service incident data to find out where and how visitors died in the national parks between 20. For adventure-loving hikers, understanding those accidents is the first step to making sure they don’t become a statistic themselves. But the flip side to that freedom is that accidents do occasionally happen. Instead, visitors can decide what their own comfort level is with isolation, heights, weather, and more. Part of the beauty of national parks is that they’re wild spaces: The guardrails, liability issues, and for-your-own-good-protections of everyday modern life are mostly absent. This time, it’s the New York Post that’s sounding the alarm in a story headlined “Grand Canyon National Park ranked the deadliest - with highest numbers of deaths, missing person reports since 2018.” But as we wrote in February 2022 in response to a similar story, Grand Canyon isn’t the “deadliest” national park-if you look a little more closely at the numbers. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!Įditor’s note: Once again, Grand Canyon National Park is making headlines for being the most dangerous national park in the United States.
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