Just two sites — one a long, scenic parkway in the East and the other a recreational area in a populous West Coast metro — accounted for around 10% of all visits to all sites. The 424 sites administered by…
The 424 sites administered by the US National Park Service continued to rebound from the pandemic last year, and a perennial favorite once again landed in the top spot for most visited site for 2022.
Almost 312 million recreation visits were logged by the NPS in 2022, which is closing in on the pre-pandemic 2019 numbers of roughly 327.5 million visits.Fog lies in the valleys as the sun comes up along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, N.C., Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021.2. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 15.64 million
People visit The Presidio, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco, Sunday, May 3, 2020.3. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 12.94 million Late afternoon light streaks across golden leaves in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Gatlinburg, Tenn. on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.A deer crosses Atlantic Drive inside the Gateway National Recreation Area, Jan. 3, 2019, in Highlands, N.J.The Lincoln Memorial is seen before dawn, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018, in Washington.A woman jogs with her baby by George Washington Memorial Parkway, across the Potomac River from the Washington Monument in Arlington, Va. on Friday, March 23, 2007.
An American flag stands outside Historic Fort Barrancas at Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola Beach, Fla. on Monday, April 4, 2011.A formerly sunken boat stands upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on June 22, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev.The names of the fallen soldiers are seen at Vietnam Veterans Memorial, ahead of Memorial Day, in Washington, Sunday, May 29, 2022.
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