This summer travel season kicked off with worries for anyone headed to a national park.
A wave of firings and resignations shortly after President Trump took office depleted the ranks of permanent staff across the system, and seasonal hiring started much later than usual. All this meant reports of uncleaned toilets, closed trails and campgrounds, and long waits at popular sites.
The chaos may have pushed nervous travelers to visit state parks or Canadian parks instead. If you still chose to go to a U.S. national park this summer, we want to know about your experience. Were there problems like overcrowding, cancellations or maintenance issues, or did you find things working smoothly? Please share the details of your experience with us, including photos and videos. We will look at all the responses and use some of them to put together a crowdsourced midsummer checkup of national parks.
We won’t publish your response or use photos or videos you submit without contacting you. If we do include your response, we will need to use your full name and city; we can’t use pseudonyms or first names only.
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Danial Adkison is an editor for the Travel section at The Times.
Eileen Sullivan is a Times reporter covering the changes to the federal work force under the Trump administration.
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