Yosemite Park: Come for the Views, Stay for the Food

Food will never be what draws 293 million visitors to America’s national parks each year. The waterfalls, wildlife, canyons, and forests get full credit. But those people gotta eat, and they’re what the industry calls a “captive audience.” They are in the middle of the wilderness, at the mercy of the park’s offerings, with no other food options except what is in the cooler, backpack, or RV fridge. (Eating found berries and such is usually OK, as long as you don’t poison yourself or “harvest” or “collect,” like this guy. As I’ve written before, you just don’t want to go to prison for being a mushroom poacher.)

So national parks could serve almost anything and hungry people who have been hiking all day

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