It's going to be a crowded summer in the National Park System, but that doesn't mean you can't find incredible parks that are a bit off the well-beaten path and will offer you both beauty and some solitude without too much work on your part.

With the summer season already underway at Lake Powell in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, boaters can expect crowds, especially when it comes to launching their boats and then pulling them out of the lake. Those crowds will be greater this Memorial Day Weekend because low water levels in the lake are limiting ramps for boaters.

The rush to the outdoors that was spurred by the coronavirus pandemic last year saw quite the incredible jump in RV sales. And, as a recent RV Industry Association survey indicated, that rush will continue this year.

If you're hoping to mix pleasure with work during your national park escape, there are some parks where you definitely shouldn't expect powerful mobile reception for downloading or uploading information. Sequoia National Park in California just might be the worst "hot spot," with a median download of 1.43 megabytes per second and a median upload of 1.38 mbps.