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# pick-a-park.com
# [Pick A Park!](https://pick-a-park.com)
## Quickly pick a US National Park to visit, based on driving distance from your location, and the weather at the park.

A learning exercise in Go programming, this project was inspired by the hours I spent trying to pick a national park for a roadtrip during spring break, while I was studying in the US. In mid-March most of the parks around me were still too cold for a longer camping trip, and so I would spend hours cross-referencing the weather at the parks and trying to pick the closest one that my sleeping bag could handle.
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I opted to use **Pocketbase** ([https://pocketbase.io](https://pocketbase.io)) for this project because I love the idea of it and wanted to experience working with it. Considering the final scope, it would have made more sense to use something like Turso or basic SQLite distributed via LiteFS (as of now the app doesn't utilize the auth/email functionalities because I didn't feel it would contribute to the usability of the app).

The app is hosted on [fly.io](https://fly.io):

[https://pick-a-park.com](https://pick-a-park.com).

The app is hosted on [fly.io](https://fly.io).

**PS. There is nothing stopping this project from including National Parks from all nations, other than the gargantuan task of accumulating the data necessary (which does not appear to be consolidated anywhere). According to Wikipedia, there are 3,367 national parks worldwide.**

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