What do you do, where do you go, when you pull into your favorite national park and can't find a place to park or a trail without crowds?
Those are good questions probably going through many people's minds as the national parks become more and more popular with more and more people.
Mike Oswald might have the answers you're looking for, at least for the Western half of the country. Oswald is the writer and publisher behind Your Guide to the National Parks, a thick, fact-filled guidebook to the 63 national parks in the country. This year he's veering outside of the parks with a new book titled, simply, Public Land, 1,000 Western Wonders.
National Parks Traveler Podcast