Exploring the National Parks - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I have been listening to this podcast for over a year and love it! We recently bought a Yosemite itinerary and thank goodness because you kept us up to date on needing to get a day pass. I love all the free resources too including the camping excel file, national parks by month and the camping list! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge!

My parents and I listened to these podcasts in between each park on our Grand Circle road trip! They helped us to enjoy more of each park and know what to be looking for! Sometimes we would try to listen to other national parks podcasts and always came back here. In the words of my other “go back to Dirt in My Shoes- they have actually been to the parks unlike the other podcasters who are just reading the things they found online!”

I’ve been listening to Ash and John’s podcast for over a year now (thanks for the reminder to rate and leave a review), and I just love listening to them. I listen to them while I’m in the car driving and pretending I’m headed on adventures when I’m really driving to the grocery store or work. But I’ve made it a goal to visit all the national parks by my late 50s, and love all the tips and information they provide to help maximize my time in the parks. I’m planning a big trip next year to Yellowstone and Grand Tetons (maybe +Glacier but think that’s too much in 7 days) and I know I’ll be using their itineraries. Their master list has already been incredibly helpful in trying to pre-plan a lot of things including where to start on lodging. Can’t wait to continue listening to their entertaining podcast! And John, this is for you - your talk about LOTR actually made me want to re-watch all of them including The Hobbit so I understand the references and now I’m a big fan of that world, so thanks! 😂

I must have listened to this episode about a dozen times in preparation before and again after for future return trip to the great parks and sites along the way. We drove all the way from Nashville, TN and back and saw so much . Thanks to DIMS Ash and John for helping us learn and plan. I can’t wait to go back. We recently visited Yellowstone for a week but we flew this time. We missed getting over to Grand Tetons. I guess we’ll have to go back out that way