23 Easy Ways to be a National Park Jerk

Don't be a National Park Jerk! Here are 23 ways to get that label:

1. Take up lots of parking spaces at the visitor center with your compact car
2. Leave food out and attract all the animals
3. Take your massive RV on narrow roads
4. Don’t hold the door open for the person behind you
5. Walk 3 or 4, maybe 5 wide, on a trail
   1. Then walk really slow and hold up foot traffic
6. Accidentally hit someone with your selfie stick while selfieing and don’t apologize
7. Audibly complain about all the tourists; you’re not a tourist
8. Ignore safety railings and warnings on cliffs
9. Play your music loud on the trail; everyone wants to hear it
10. Tell everyone how stupid they are for using technology
11. Hold up traffic while admiring the wildlife
12. Run up to and try to pet the wildlife
13. Put a bison calf in your car because it looks cold
14. Keep your dog off leash
    1. It’s better off running around off leash
    2. This way it doesn’t have to take a s#!t on the trail
15. Never walk on the safety of boardwalks that keep you from falling into boiling hot springs
16. Tell as many strangers as you can about how many National Scenic Trails you’ve thru hiked
17. Stand really close to the person in front of you, heavily breathing down their neck, while waiting for the shuttle bus
18. Fart on the shuttle bus
19. Risk your life and go anywhere to get an awesome photo for the gram
20. Cut someone in line while waiting to use the bathroom
21. Complain audibly loud about the terrible cell phone reception
    1. Make a non-emergency phone call, because YOLO
22. Build a new fire ring anywhere you want, we always need new scars on the land
23. Enhance and create "art" in our natural spaces

These rules actually apply to pretty much everywhere you explore the outdoors. Good rule of thumb for everything you do in life: don't be a jerk.

*This post originally appeared on The Weekend Warrior