Are you hot and heavy for national parks? These people want you to be.
Videos mixing raunchy and sexually suggestive captions, audio or clips mixed with beautiful videos of American national parks are going viral on TikTok — or ParkTok, as the kids are calling it.
In one clip posted by @visit.yellowstone, Johnathon Caine, an OnlyFans creator, smiles slyly into the camera from several angles before leaning over, flexing shirtless into the screen before the video cuts to clips of an alpine lake.
Another video on the same account shows a woman dressed in a sexy cat costume dancing to a rap song before it cuts to a stunning scene of a park. The caption reads: “Thirst Trap Thursday coming in hot and no, it’s not just the hike. Serving scenic legs and waterfall teases on the way to Nevada Falls. Nature’s not the only thing dripping.”
Other ParkTok videos look innocent enough with stunning views of Multnomah Falls — yet if you turn the volume up, the music choices are beyond suggestive and explicit.
The reason behind these unexpected spicy videos?
Nature lovers are hoping to stop people mid-scroll to bring attention to the natural beauty of these parks — and the threats they’re facing due to President Trump’s attempt to cut national park staffing, which “could result in more than a 75% reduction to the National Park System,” according to NPCA.
“This does go way beyond the thirst traps,” Kim Tanner, who runs the unofficial Joshua Tree account @joshuatreenp with more than 250,000 followers, told CNN.
“It’s a way to pull people in, it’s a way to hook them, and it works. But at the same time, you’re showing them that beautiful imagery [of the parks] and hopefully, even if subliminally, you’re educating them.”
Many ParkTokkers hope that viewers donate to organizations like the National Park Foundation or contact local representatives to advocate for their political support of the parks.
Sometimes the accounts make jokes about which has the “biggest trees” or “longest lakes” seemingly competing with one another — but many of them are actually working together.
Phoebe, a nature enthusiast who started the unofficial Multnomah Falls account @multnomah_falls to simply share her love of Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, realized she could do more than just gush about how breathtaking her favorite area is.
That’s why she joined a group chat on TikTok with fellow-minded ParkTokkers.
“We started thinking we could probably do some good with this instead of just sharing our hiking videos,” Phoebe told the outlet.
So, they began “doing coordinated, themed posts, in between our silly posts and our nature posts, about the threats of logging and the threats of our public lands being sold and all of these things that have been introduced by the federal government,” she said.
These content creators hope their buzzy, spice-filled videos will turn people on to protect the parks.
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