National Parks & Easter

It's National Parks Week and Dangerous Dave talks about our favorite parks and least. Plus, stats about Easter weekend this year.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stuber in the Den with dangerous d well.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
National Park Week kicks off tomorrow and they're waiving entrance
fees for the first day to kick off the celebration.
Sixty three national parks in the US, but some are
more popular than others. National Park Service recently shared which
places were visited the most in twenty twenty four Top
ten Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.

(00:26):
I've actually been to the park in Tennessee. It's pretty cool.
Design National Park in Utah, Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona,
Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, Rocky Mountain
National Park in Colorado, and Yosemite National Park in California.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Other national parks that are most.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Visited Acadia National Park and Maine Olympic National Park in
Washington State, Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, and Glacier
National Park in Montana.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
How about Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
In North Dakota the least three most visited remote gates
of Arctic National Park. It's in a preserve in Alaska,
North Cascades in Washington State, and Kubuck Valley in Alaska. Overall,
National Park Service reported three hundred and thirty one point
nine million recreational visits to the national parks in twenty
twenty four. The previous record was set in twenty sixteen

(01:15):
with three hundred and thirty one million recreational visits. So,
if you get a chance. National Park Week starts tomorrow,
free admission tomorrow, if you can get out deeper in
the two Easter weekend. And should adults be allowed to
get in on Easter egg hunts?

Speaker 1 (01:30):
A poll found more than half of us do.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Fifty seven percent of adults love to compete in Easter
egg hunts this time of year, but it feels like
something it should be for the kids. If we did
get in on this one, we wouldn't mess around. Forty
two percent said they'd be willing to use tricks and
schemes to gain an advantage. Sixty two percent of adults
would like to get their own Easter basket. Eighty percent
of parents admit to stealing candy from their kids each year.

(01:54):
Top things we want on our Easter baskets is in candy,
it's gift cards. Most common Easter basket items chocolate, bunnies
and eggs, jelly beans, peeps. We consume about ninety million
to chocolate bunnies for Easter each year, sixteen billion jelly
beans and one point five billion peeps.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
So how do you eat the bunny?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Seventy seven percent start with the ears, sixteen percent go
feet first, and six percent go right for the butt.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
So what do you like in a chocolate egg?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Forty one percent said solid chocolate, thirty six percent said
some kind of a filling like carmel, twenty three percent
prefer hollow. Spending time with family is actually our favorite
Easter tradition. Easter brunch or Easter dinner is third. So
fifty three percent of Americans also die Easter.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Eggs every year.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Even with eggs praises being so high, anybody really dying
potatoes to save money? By the way, that's what was
a trend in the Atlantic White House Easter egg roll.
We'll have thirty thousand eggs this year. The American Egg
Board is donating them, and they have been for five decades.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Easter Sunday is the most popular church day of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Next is Christmas Eve, followed by Mother's Day. And speaking
of Mom's Easter egg greeting cards are big deal. If
you couldn't find one you liked. Hallmark has two hundred
and seventy three different Easter cards this year, and we're
going to spend twenty four billion dollars on Easter and
twenty twenty five when you factor in eggs, candy, gifts, clothes,
the average spending one hundred and eighty nine dollars. And
that's just on a dozen eggs.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
To again for another episode of Deeper in the Den
with Dangerous daved right here.