 It's a communal enterprise. Often as Americans, we think about wilderness as something that we experience in solitude by ourselves, but actually that's just not true. So many of us go to our national parks with families, with spouses, with children, with grandparents. We go to these places to connect to the beauty of the natural world with people we love, and the beauty of the natural world enables us to connect with the people that we love in new and marvelous ways.