Entries filed under 'visitation'

National Park Visitation Up 3.8 Million in 2012; First Free-Entry Days of 2013 Arrive April 22-26

Bargain hunters, take note: National Park Week, when national park entrance fees are waived April 22-26, is coming up. Recently released visitation statistics indicate Americans still love their national parks. More than 282 million people visited a unit of the National Park Service system in 2012, the 6th highest annual total on record. ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on April 15, 2013 10:30 AM & Tagged National Parks, fee-free days and visitation | permalink | Comments



National Park Visitation in 2011: Heavy Spring Snow Probably Had an Impact

Do you see yourself in the chart below? It lists the top 20 of 58 national parks within the National Park Service system that attracted the most "recreational visits" in 2011. The NPS defines recreational visitors as people who enter a park neither to work nor to commute to work. Of the nearly 400 units the National Park Service administers, from national seashores to national military parks, the Blue Ridge Parkway attracted the higest number of visits (15,382,447), followed by the Golden Gate ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on March 12, 2012 8:08 PM & Tagged national parks and visitation | permalink | Comments



Do You Know Your National Park Service Trivia?

It's National Park Week (free admission to any park through April 24), and this is Fun Facts to Know and Tell, National Parks edition: How old is the National Park Service? It marks its 95th anniversary in August. Its first director? A Chicago businessman, Stephen T. Mather, who stepped into the role in 1916 when the NPS had an inventory of just 14 parks and 21 national monuments. Perhaps you have stood at Mather Point on the Grand Canyon's South Rim? Wandered in the Stephen Mather Wilderness ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on April 15, 2011 8:36 PM & Tagged national parks and visitation | permalink | Comments



2010 National Park Visitation: Popular Parks Attract More Visitors

Yellowstone experienced the biggest attendance jump of any national park in 2010, attracting 344,998 more recreational visitors than it drew in 2009, according to preliminary visitation statistics published by the National Park Service. (When viewing the NPS chart, switch the date from January 2011 to December 2010 to see year-end numbers.) Yellowstone, the nation's oldest national park (1872), set a new annual attendance record for the second straight year, recording more than 3.6 million ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 24, 2011 7:01 PM & Tagged 2009, 2010, Acadia, Rocky Mountain, glacier, grand teton, national parks, visitation and yellowstone | permalink | Comments