National parks have a reputation …
For being stuck in time in a good way.
Years, even decades, later you can return to a park …
And it mostly looks the same. Same old trees. Same old swamp.
But on the other side of the dotted line …
The landscape has and is rapidly changing.
The same return trip to a spot you remembered as a grove of trees or farm fields in your youth often times has changed to houses, concrete and a maze of roads.
Slowly and steadily, that has made the parks less and less remote.
Driving to town just isn’t as far away as it used to be.
