People Are Revealing Things That Were “Ruined” When They Became Too Popular, And It’s SO Real

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“It’s gotten incredibly crowded in places like national parks, and people don’t seem as respectful of nature or the locations they’re seeing as they used to be. This applies to places outside the US, too; people trash public beaches, campgrounds, and trails and don’t seem to care that they’re doing it.”

“Like, it used to be something to climb Mt. Everest, but there are so many people doing it now that the main camps look like garbage dumps. Or, the people who think it’s funny to knock over stacked rock formations or graffiti over petroglyphs. Or, the person who hitched their truck to a historic feature at a park because they drove off marked roads and got stuck in mud. These all used to be problems, but they were much more manageable before the sheer increase in the number of visitors some of these places have been getting.”

—torbielillies