A national park is fighting back against all the bad reviews

With 63 national parks and hundreds of sites and monuments spread across the United States, there are countless ways different agencies choose to categorize and classify them.

Some look at which are the cheapest and most expensive to visit – the latter would be, due to its remote location, Alaska’s Arctic Gateway – while others looked at everything from the number of visitors to the quality of accommodation and the probability of a hazard.

Due to the large number of people who cross it to enter the United States from Mexico, the title of “most dangerous” is claimed by the Organ Pipe Cactus in Arizona.

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Located in the south-central region of Kentucky, Mammoth Cave National Park has in recent years become associated with poor visitor reviews and low placement on various ratings of the best and worst national parks to visit.

National Park for visitors: “Come experience what has disappointed millions”

While Google (GOOGLE) Ratings for Mammoth Cave are currently at a fairly high 4.7 out of five, there are also thousands of reviews calling the park known for its valleys and extensive cave system “boring” and “not worth the trip.”

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The staff working at Mammoth Cave must have had enough of the bad mouthing and decided to hit back with their own social media post, saying a “world of regrets awaits” anyone who chooses to come there.

“Come experience what has disappointed millions for over 225 years!” The National Park Service working out of Mammoth Cave wrote on Facebook (THE TARGET) post at the end of August. “Mammoth Cave National Park was recently rated as one of the most disappointing tourist attractions in the US! While we think the world’s longest cave system and over 4,000 years of human history is AMAZING, others think the cave is ‘really dark’ and there’s ‘nothing cool’ to see here.”

The sarcastic post goes on to describe “unfulfilled” parts of the parks and things you can do there, such as stalactites, stalagmites and more than 80 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails.

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Visitors appreciate the joke: “I don’t know why I keep coming back”

The post was extremely well received, with over 104,000 upvotes for an account that only has 118,000 followers. Many fans of the park highly appreciated the post and described the good times they had exploring it.

“I’ve been disappointed with the place since I was six,” wrote a commenter named Mark Thornberry. “61 years of disappointment (pun fully intended). I don’t know why I keep coming back.”

The NPS regularly uses light humor to promote specific parks, publish information about park news, and publish PSAs about rules and being a good visitor.

After a series of incidents in which Yellowstone park visitors were injured after failing to follow basic animal safety rules and getting too close to the bison they encountered, the NPS issued an X in which told visitors to “believe in you, like visitors who think they can comfort. a bison”.

The post was one of the most popular NPS X accounts and garnered over 78,000 upvotes within days of posting.

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