alt Hacker NewsDriving around America, you'll see they have these brown background signs telling you about museums and parks and stuff like that. We often stop by these to just take a look and it blows my mind how rich this country is that some random little lake somewhere will have a full blown parking lot and restroom and will look spick and span. There'll be a couple of those standard-issue picnic tables and standard-issue signboards describing the place.
I really love these random stops.
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Have you moved to the US from somewhere else that doesn't have anything like that? I'm more interested in how that works tbh, because this also seems normal to me (UK) – if there's some natural attraction like woods or a lake or whatever are you just not allowed to see it? Or you are, you can freely roam, but just it's on you to figure out how to get there/what to do with your car etc.? Or would it just not be publicly owned land anyway so previous questions are irrelevant?
> how rich this country is that some random little lake somewhere will have a full blown parking lot
Aren't the parking spaces required by law, instead of "because we're rich"? I don't know, but I just watched the latest Not Just Bikes video, where he mentions legal requirements for stores to provide lots of parking spaces, which makes everything more expensive.
American natural parks' restrooms will look spick and span?
That wasn't my experience in California and Nevada as a tourist from Europe.
I think the brown signs for "sights" which are the same shape as road directions are kinda standardized? I've been seeing them in Europe for decades too.
These ones with more detailed drawings are less common, but I've also seen them in multiple countries (at least my home town in Italy and some cities in Hungary have them).