Trails pocketed with natural deposits of marble, limestones, and quartz, also feature mortar holes, knapping sites, and pictographs. This juxtaposition washes away the mythology of the untouched and unpopulated virgin lands that became the National Parks.
Instead, the entrance gates, trails, boundaries, and modern efficiencies, are reminders that the National Parks are manufactured; their borders are contrived and imply the violence of their maintenance.
Like the Woody Guthrie song, I began my journey entranced by the beaty of this land, but the longer I ramble, the more I am confronted by the dark history of the settler colonial project and it's continued harms on us all.
