Well, in my experience in the National Parks I’ve been to thus far, they are large and in remote areas. So, if you plan to spend a day there going from place to place within the park to check out (like at Yellowstone) it’s nice to have the park cafeteria’s and general stores around for lunch, snacks, water, etc.

I can’t speak to the connotation of this term. But I’m skeptical that gang rape is some French tradition.

I agree buuuut we have a special word for gang rape too: gang rape.

You’re a real fasces, Kenny.

Cord? You dickheaded cord!

They’re disqualified because the french translation of “gang rape” is just one word instead of two?

“City people?” LOL. It’s a national park, not a wilderness. There are already coffee shops, food courts, wifi, and all kinds of amenities there. That’s by design, and there’s a balance, it’s not like Yellowstone is going to start training elk to make a mocha. Get ahold of yourself.

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

Yeah, I love our national parks and spend a ton of time in them, and I am not outraged about this. There’s been a commercial presence in our parks for as long as I’ve been alive. The Park Service doesn’t have the resources to run its own concessions, so it contracts out. And it does benefit from those concessions…

It’s not like there’s not already shops at the parks that sell coffee and their not littered with cups. So, unless having a Starbucks increases how many people decide to drink coffee while at the park, I don’t really see that as one of the issues to have with this decision.

I would imagine it’ll be inside a lodge? Yellowstone has Starbucks at the Lake Yellowstone Hotel (and other coffee everywhere else).

How much extra trash do you imagine there will be? And why would it increase?

Yosemite Lodge already sells food, including beverages in paper cups. If people are going to litter, it has nothing to do with Starbucks specifically.

Agreed. Last time I was in the valley there really wasn’t a place to get a good cup. Granted we were at the Ahwahnee lodge and they were doing some construction but the once place there serving a good coffee was pretty bad at best.

Yes... if that’s what you order.

Yosemite’s coffee game up to this point has been pretty terrible. I don’t think this is a bad thing, as long as it’s not something they’re building like a separate building for-with one of those big dumb signs out front.

Have you been there? The whole valley floor is a parking lot with roads and paved trails taking people to where they want to go. Starbucks is nothing.

Multinational corporations have no place in our National Parks

Because the Peets didn’t sell coffee in cups?

I hate Starbucks and rarely drink their coffee but there’s already a Peet’s Coffee in Yosemite Valley Lodge which I’m guessing is what this would be replacing. As someone who works in Yosemite on a regular business I’d love a local roaster or even no roaster at all (the Peet’s is the coffee in a cafeteria) but all the…