Visitation is up!
Information provided by CNHA
America's national parks are seeing more visitors in 2009 than a year earlier, according to visitation information collected by the National Park Service (NPS).
In the first half of 2009, national park units experienced 127,728,898 visits, an increase of nearly 4.5 million visits over the same period in 2008. In June alone, visitation to national parks increased by over 718,000 visits between 2008 to 2009.
Visitation at Arches National Park is up 9% year-to-date over the same period in 2008. Canyonlands National Park visits increased about 5%, Hovenweep about 9% and Natural Bridges visitation is up 1.5%.
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