We’re not terrible people, but even when we’ve come a far way to see something cool (a landmark, a beach, an exciting city), we also want the option to step away for a moment and send a few messages. Maybe even to our boss. Maybe to our boss who thinks we’re at our desk.
But if your favorite tourist attraction doesn’t have connectivity, you’re screwed. And then I guess you just have to, like, enjoy the thing you traveled to see. Whatever! But if the ability to work/post/scroll is important to you, eSIM card company Holafly’s created a list of the top U.S. tourist attractions with the worst mobile internet. While the average U.S. internet speed is 107.87 megabytes per second, some destinations have a single-digit speed. The company cross-referenced zip codes of more than 290,000 destinations with the mobile download speed data across that zip code’s three top service providers in order to find out who’s got the cool geysers and bison crossings but lousy internet speed.
Yes: it’s Yellowstone. Are we surprised? It’s such a remote wilderness… that’s why we go! But the sad reality is, the wolves and wolverines have to get by on 1.7 megabytes per second.
The second worst? It’s the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico with unusual cone-shaped tent rock formations. And the third worst is Tuckaleechee Caverns in Tennessee, a massive cave system under the Smoky Mountains.
Here are the top 10 worst tourist attractions for internet speed:
1. Yellowstone National Park, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
2. Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, New Mexico
3. Tuckaleechee Caverns, Tennessee
4. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Maine
5. Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
6. Fortress of the Bear, Alaska
7. Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming
8. Flume Gorge, New Hampshire
9. Tahquamenon Falls State Park, Michigan
10. Running Reindeer Ranch, Alaska