Then, she tried to weed out any sarcastic ones, and others that criticized park management or administration. She looked for reviews that predated the project once it took off, people began to plant fake reviews to get her attention. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based designer had some strict criteria when it came to determining which reviews to use in her illustrations. A nature lover who enjoys hiking, kayaking and backpacking, Share has been to about a third of the sites.
#Yelp reviewer stupid full#
Share also includes a handful of national monuments, recreation areas, preserves, lakeshores and seashores, bumping the full list of sites in its pages up to 77. From Acadia to the Grand Canyon, and Denali to the Virgin Islands, all 63 are featured in the book. Out of all the National Park Service’s 423 national park sites, only 63 of them have the “National Park” designation tacked onto their name. With more than 350,000 followers, the account has been called " an immediate hit," taking " creativity to a whole new level" and providing " comic relief in strange times." Soon enough, literary agents were sliding into Share's DMs to get her to create a book with them. Once she put up a few more and shared the account, the project took off. The first park she illustrated for the Instagram account was Arches and its non-license-plate-worthy scenery. So I thought, ‘What could I do to put my spin on it and make it my own, stand out a little bit?’ One day I just happened to stumble upon a couple of bad reviews someone posted to Reddit, and immediately thought I could find this for every park.” Obviously, that’s been done a lot and executed really well by a lot of really awesome artists.
“A natural idea that emerged was drawing all the parks. “At the time, I was working more in graphic design and I wanted a side project to keep me illustrating and hopefully break into the outdoor industry a bit,” Share says.
Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitorsīased on the wildly popular Instagram account, Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America’s national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors. The popular Instagram account has spawned a new book, Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors, out this month. The account, launched in 2019, currently has more than 100 posts of artistically drawn national park posters superimposed with real negative reviews she's gathered from Yelp, Google and TripAdvisor. She runs the Instagram account Subpar Parks, which pairs illustrations of national parks with the ridiculously unsavory reviews they’ve received online. It's bitter reviews like this one that illustrator Amber Share savors.
#Yelp reviewer stupid license#
Well, at least for one person, who left this scathing review: “Looks nothing like the license plate.” Of course, referring to the standard issue plate featuring Delicate Arch, a 46-foot-tall freestanding sandstone arch, and the state slogan, "Life elevated." While most can't compete with Abbey's eloquence, I'd venture to guess that the majority of the 1.5 million annual visitors to the red-rock paradise have something to say about the park's magnificence and beauty.Īnd it's not necessarily something so nice. I want to know it all, possess it all, embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally." In Desert Solitaire, his account of those two summers, Abbey writes, "Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhumane spectacle of rock and cloud and space, I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. Environmental activist and author Edward Abbey spent two seasons, in 19, working as a ranger in what's now Arches National Park in Utah.
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