The park service predicts 10 million more Americans will visit national parks this year, topping last year’s record attendance of 307 million. There were 164 fatalities and 1,184 injuries across the National Park Service in 2014, the last year such numbers were available. Whatever you carry, make sure not to depend on your smartphone in a national park. AAA reports that 79 percent of Americans and nearly half of millennials it surveyed said they are likely to visit a national park in the next 12 months. “People get really excited and forget this is a wild place,” said Jamie Richards, public affairs officer for Yosemite National Park in California.

Source: Fox News August 03, 2016 06:33 UTC