A House Natural Resources subcommittee held an oversight hearing last week not-so-subtly titled “No More Standoffs: Protecting Federal Employees and Ending the Culture of Anti-Government Attacks and Abuse.”
It is important to take a moment and reacquaint oneself with nature, not just for activity or leisure, but for brief contemplation and spiritual connection.
Before you pack up for your next adventure road trip to the Smoky Mountains, you may want to read this first. The folks at Outforia, a website dedicated to all things outdoor adventure, submitted a request to the National Parks Service, sighting the Freedom of Information act, in order to gain access to statistical data that they then used to determine which national parks in the United States are the most dangerous.
Outforia based their ranking on the number of deaths that have occurred across 62 national parks between 2010 and 2020. With that information, they concluded that a popular destination for many of us in the area is actually the third most dangerous - Smoky Mountain National Park. Located across parts of Tennessee and North Carolina, Smoky Mountain National Park is actually the most visited national park in the country with more than 12.5 million visitors between 2010 and 2020 and it is ranked number 3 on the list with 92 total deaths across that 10 year span. That is 3