Dow Williams wrote:Below is what I noticed and to be honest, why we left Tahoe to spend more time north of the border in a much broader wilderness/park system.
The Canadians have gotten a lot better after about 1980. But before then:
For decades it was Parks Canada policy to have a golf course in every park.
Banff was twice proposed as a site for the Winter Olympics.
The crown jewel parks typically have a township inside their boundaries, with year-round residents.
Parks Canada has a tradition of being much more open to extractive uses of the parks, including logging, oil and gas development, and minerals extraction. (All those have happened in US parks too.)
The developments at Lake Louise are an abomination. Of course, so is Yosemite Valley.