It isn't safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, even crime, and conscientious park personnel are demoralized.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.
There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.
The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park.
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the society around them, but that only makes it more important to protect them and keep them whole and pure.
That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.
A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms.
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.
The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them.
Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.