About half of the parks are free, but they are often flooded with pricy tourist activities that are necessary to enjoy the park’s natural features. Moreover, some parks require a steep admission fee. While some cities are close to lands at the highest level of highest federal protection, there are several states that do not have any national parks. Knighton also discusses diversity in park visitors and important questions regarding the parks’ accessibility. In “Water,” Knighton takes readers through underwater trails in the only national park that is 95% water (Biscayne), then to our country’s most urban national park, in which concrete bathes bubble in Hot Springs, Arkansas (Hot Springs). For example, the Florida Everglades and California’s not widely known Pinnacles, are listed in the same chapter to discuss their wild alligators and condors. As a result of these groupings, parks that may not have interacted with each other previously are juxtaposed. Rather, parks are categorized by their characteristics: trees, wild animals, volcanoes, water, etc.

The national parks are not discussed in the order he visited them, nor are they grouped by region. After CBS sent him to Acadia to complete the first segment, he decided to make it a goal to visit all the parks in the United States. The loss left him feeling lifeless and directionless until a friend recommended that he do a Sunday Morning special on national parks. Conor Knighton was a TV journalist for CBS’s Sunday Morning when his fiancé broke off their engagement. We all know that familiar feeling, the loneliness and depression that ensues after a serious relationship ends. Conor Knighton learns lessons from the oldest lifeforms on earth

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