Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 88192)

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.

Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 88224)

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

Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 88188)

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

Originally Posted by FMCoug (Post 88246)

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. ;)

Originally Posted by hyrum (Post 88250)

Kanab, UT?

Originally Posted by SeattleUte (Post 88188)

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

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski (Post 88299)

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.

Originally Posted by FMCoug (Post 88302)

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