Today is World Toilet Day, which despite the funny-sounding name is actually a serious-minded reminder than a few billion people on this planet do not have access to clean, modern sanitation.

Credit the nonprofit behind the cause for recognizing that a day called World Toilet Day is going to trigger an Involuntary Joke Response in a lot of people. The organization even aims to raise awareness by sponsoring “Big Squat” campaigns. Good call.

So we’re asking the same question we asked last World Toilet Day: What backcountry outhouse has the best view you’ve ever seen?

Last year REI Blog readers and Facebook fans flooded us (we’ll avoid saying “dumped on us”) hundreds of nominees. (See a partial list below the photo.) Who knew people were so passionate about privies?

My personal No. 1 is the wall-free squatter atop Desolation Peak above Ross Lake in North Cascades National Park. The photo below of me admiring the scene I believe supports my case as to why it’s my fave. Got a contender of your own? Do tell.

Nominees mentioned multiple times last year:

• Philmont Scout Ranch in the Sangre de Christo Mountains of New Mexico got the most callouts. “Pilot to bombadier on top of a bluff that overlooks a valley, absolutely beautiful."

• Chasm Lake on the way to Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park.

• Solar latrines at the trail junction on the east side of Longs Peak (aka the Boulder Field area) with a great view of the East Face wall. (See wobbly video below.)

• The "Loo with a View" atop Mackinnon Pass on the Milford Track in New Zealand.

• En route to Angel's Landing at the junction with the East Rim Trail, Zion National Park. (Personal observation: The view outside the stalls is fab, but inside, whew! Especially after the summertime sun has had some time to work on those sheds.)
  

• Fritz and Fabi's Benedict Huts, part of Colorado's 10th Mountain hut system, near Aspen.

• Below Hornet Lookout, Flathead National Forest in Montana. “Full view to the east of the entire range of Glacier NP and into Canada.”
  

• Several privies in the Enchantment Lakes district of Washington state’s Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Leavenworth, Wash., got a nod: “There is a seat overlooking Inspiration Lake of the Enchantments that is simply amazing.”

Some of the one-time nominees:

• The old Exum toilet on the lower saddle of the Grand Teton.
  

• Northstar-at-Tahoe XC trail Swiss hut.

• "Outhouse built out over the ocean on the Utila Cays in Honduras. It has a little window cut out of the side wall so you can see the other Cays off in the distance."
  

• “The hole carved in the granite slab at the Grand Mulet Hut (Mount Blanc region, France). The ‘alluvial cone’ is most impressive.”

• The Emma and Marceline Yurts, Leadville, Colo.
  

• Third Pass, Inca Trail, Peru.

• Next to a public use cabin at Holgate Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. “When the door is open you have a great view of a calving glacier.”

• Abeyta Jackass Mine, Darwin, Calif. “At the top of a high mountain peak is an old miner's outhouse with no more walls. Just the throne overlooking Death Valley National Park.”

• “The latrine at the Lake McDonald backcountry campsite in Glacier National Park. Best yet!”
  

• Havasupai trailhead, Arizona.
  

• Privy at Fremont Lookout, Mount Rainier National Park.
  

• “The stone outhouses at Camp Muir, on Mount Rainier. Nothing like a view of the Cascades from 10,000 feet.”
  

• “The privy at Nine Stream on the Skokomish River in the Olympic National Park. But I'm biased, I helped install it.”
  

• Hermit Creek, Grand Canyon National Park. “Great view looking up at the canyon rim.”
  

• Overmountain Shelter (Avery, N.C.) on the Appalachian Trail.

• “Top of the hill at the boat in campground at Carters Lake in northwest Georgia. No door on it and you sit 100-plus feet above the lake looking through a beautiful Georgia pine forest.”
  

• Amber Zaragoza Mine, Trapper Creek, Alaska. “A beautiful view of Denali.”
  

• “Open-air toilet on the side of Mount Baker (Washington state) at 6500 feet. You can see the lights of Vancouver BC at night.”
  

• Grand Island, Upper Michigan. Campsite 3. “Just the pot and the great outdoors. Best view ever.”

• Goodwin Green Hut outside Aspen. “Clear glass walls offer a great view at 12,000 feet.”

• Top of Caines Head trail, Seward, Alaska, overlooking Resurrection Bay.

• "Gaona Lua (composting toilet) perched in the middle of a lava field, with no enclosure whatsoever, halfway up the mountainside, back country Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Uninterrupted view of palm-lined beach and the Pacific."
  

• The composting toilet in the Ishinca Valley, Peru. “Tough to beat for a view.”
  

• Mountain House on Denali's Ruth Glacier, Alaska.

• Antlers Campsite on the 100 Mile Wilderness (Maine) on the Appalachian Trail.
  

• At Hamilton Lakes, along the High Sierra Trail, with a view of the Great Western Divide.
  

• Beaver Woman Campground. Glacier National Park. “It's not an outhouse though. It’s a low rider (open-air toilet experience), so the view is that much better.”
  

• Sierra Club hut on the Mount Baldy trail, San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California. “Outhouse has a view down the valley. Gorgeous.”
  

• Top of Chilkoot Trail, Coast Mountains, Alaska.
  

• Heart Lake, Yellowstone National Park, campsite 8H1. "Open pit toilet looking out over the lake."
  

• ‎50 Mountain Meadow, Glacier National Park.
  

• “Pants down...it's the Yellow Mountain Barn; Appalachian Trail on the Tennessee/North Carolina border.”

• “In Nepal, complete with goat tied up inside to keep you company!”

• ”Best name: Fort Relief at Antlers campsite in the 100 Mile Wilderness.”

What privy would you renominate or add to this list?