National Parks are seeing an influx of crowds who are traveling to our national treasures to snap pictures for their instagram accounts.

Across that agency’s eight-state intermountain region, visitation to national parks and recreation areas has increased by 37% since Instagram was first founded in 2010.

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Tim Konrad, founder of Unofficial Networks, is a skier with over 20 years in the ski industry. Starting the blog in 2006 from Lake Tahoe with his brother John, the website has grown into one of the world’s...