4 May 2020 – National Park Playoff 2020

Day: May 4, 2020

Forecasting the Playoff

4 May 2020 Storey Clayton

I received 19 prediction brackets for the National Park Playoff before voting began this morning. This was short of the prize threshold, but bragging rights are certainly on the line to follow in the footsteps of American City Bracket champion Kurt Falk (Kurt declined to submit an NPP bracket). Here’s some statistics on who the […]

East Coast Tussle

Colin Phipps

Great Smoky Mountains NP (1) vs. Dry Tortugas NP (16) Preview When grouped with the other national parks in the first seed, the Great Smoky Mountains are simultaneously the John Lennon and the Ringo Starr of the gang. The park holds the gold medal for visitors per year at 11.4 million, and for good reason […]

Matchup Previews Find Your Park, May Madness, National Park Playoff

About

The National Park Playoff was inspired by cabin fever and the loss of March Madness. Created and run by Storey Clayton, a writer and blogger currently pursuing his MFA in Creative Nonfiction at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Guest posts by Colin Phipps, a National Park nerd and senior History student at the University of Denver with a focus on the National Park Service. Colin has been to more than 25 parks and Storey to 23 – both aspire to visit them all! This post explains the whole project.

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