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@nationalparkservice Ah, camping. It can be in-tents! Sometimes spending a day in the wilderness isn’t quite enough to truly capture the feeling of a special place. Let’s be honest, though…sometimes it is. You know who you are. <slowly raises paw> For others, maybe you’ve really wanted to experience a park after dark: taking in the starry night sky, getting lost in the howling of a distant coyote (wait, what??), hearing the rustling sound of something on the other side of a very thin tent wall (why didn’t you splurge on the more moderately affordable tent with better zippers?), wondering if it’s just your partner…until you remember you’re single and out there alone. Then things get really existential. Is anyone ever really alone? Who am I? How far is the car? Also, something is definitely now crawling in the tent. How many hours until dawn? Magical. Story time: What are some of your favorite camping stories or experience from some nights spent in a national park? Are you in a tent right now and have a visual on the spider? It’s not a spider? Well, good luck with that. Image 1: A screenshot of a tweet from the National Park Service account. Text on the image reads: “Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.” Image 2: Starry sky seen through the open flap of a pop-up tent @dinosaurnps NPS/Jacob W. Frank Image 3: Tent seen illuminated from within under a night sky @joshuatreenps NPS/ Hannah Schwalbe
