The immensity often gets lost in the superlatives stirred up by the most outrageously scenic sites. But in the aggregate, this is what every citizen owns: 530 million acres, of which 193 million are run by the Forest Service, 253 million by the Bureau of Land Management and 84 million by the National Park Service. The public land endowment is more than three times the size of France.
From A nice tribute to our public lands by Timothy Egan.
We camp for a month each summer, spending most of that time at Glacier National Park. Summer home, indeed.