Visits to America’s national parks (our single best source of current and historic outdoor recreation statistics) are down nearly 19% year to date and are unlikely to increase in the immediate future. But what might happen next year or beyond as the coronavirus comes under control? What guideposts might we follow? To gain a glimpse into the future of our nation’s wild lands we need only look to our recent past because, as Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”