It’s official: 307M park visits in 2015

This just in from the National Park Service:

President Theodore Roosevelt was reelected in 1904, the same year rangers started counting national park visitors.

There were more than 120,000 visits to America’s 11 national parks in the first year of counting. This week, the National Park Service (NPS) certified 2015 national park visitation at more than 307 million. It also released its popular Top 10 list of the most visited nationalpark sites.

“The popularity of national parks is well known,...

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Published on February 23, 2016 02:07
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