Visits to U.S. national parks and memorials are bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels. The National Park Service reported a 5% increase in attendance in 2022, with 312 million visitors.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 12.9 millionGeorge Washington Memorial Parkway, 7.4 millionLake Mead National Recreation Area, 5.6 millionColorado state park helps people with disabilities trek the trails
Visitors to the top eight parks accounted for 26% of total visitation. Some of the least visited sites include the John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and the Clara Barton National Historic Site. Other notable parks, such as the Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Yellowstone ranked at number 12, 20 and 25, respectively.
Thirty-eight percent of people went to recreation parks, 32% went to historical and cultural parks and 30% went to nature parks. Since the agency began recording attendance in 1904, there have been 15.7 billion recreational visits to the National Park System.
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