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Washington State’s National Parks Saw 6% of National Park Visitors in 2015

I love data, and I love National parks, so when I can create a post where the two of them go hand in hand, I get extra excited. Earlier this week, the National Park Service released their official totals for National Park visitation. As usual, my January 5th estimations of the 10 Most Popular Parks …

Olympic National Park Saw Over Three Million Visits in 2015

Tucked away in the upper left corner of the contiguous United States, Olympic National Park is one of America’s most popular wilderness destinations. Best known for stunning coastlines, dense rainforests, salmon filled rivers and glaciated summits, the region has brought Nirvana to life twice and forever changed how we view wilderness in America’s public lands.  Consistently …

Yellowstone National Park Sets Visitation Record for 2015

In a year where National Park’s around America saw record numbers of visitors, it should come as no surprise that Yellowstone had an amazing year.  According to a press release, issued by YNP officials, 2015 saw  4,097,710 “visits” to Yellowstone National Park. This number is up an incredible up 16.6% from 2014, which was the previous record. …

America’s 10 Most Visited National Parks of 2015

Chances are, you visited one of the 59 National Parks that are scattered around the country. America’s National Park’s have never been more popular, with 2015 seeing 300 million visitors to National Park Service lands. Around the country, numerous parks shattered visitation records and gave wilderness experiences to many who had previously not seen the …

Olympic National Park Visitation Drops 18.41% in August 2015

The numbers for Total Recreation visits through August, 2015 are in, and they come as quite a shock. Despite the long summer and the incredible weather, visitation for Olympic National Park has dropped in August, a usually peak month for tourism. Some say it dropped because of the wildfires and burn bans ruining camping trips. Others …

Breaking Up with the PNW Summer of 2015

Summer, When you leave, we will have officially been together for 93 days, 15 hours, and 42 minutes.  We made it official on June 21st, but everyone knew we were an item long before that. Our relationship had grown hotter and hotter since Valentines Day, when we enjoyed 80+ degree days at Smith Rock and Crater Lake …

Olympic National Park Continues to Become More Popular: July Visitation Numbers

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK SEES 6.35% Increase through July, 2015 Olympic National Park is still ahead of last year’s visitors attendance through the first seven months of 2015, despite seeing a 2.9% decrease in visitors from July of 2014. The hot weather, smokey skies, and fire ban are said to be a partial explanation for the …

Olympic National Park Sees 38% Jump in June Visitation

If you have been thinking Olympic National Park is a bit more crowded this year, you are absolutely right. With some of the best natural scenery in the world, visitors from across the globe flock to our little corner of the world in hopes to see the sites of what many consider to be the …

Olympic National Park’s Staircase and Elwha Regions See Huge Increases in Visitors

Through the first five months of 2015, Olympic National Park visitation is up 3.6%, with 737,085 people exploring the Northwestern-most National Park in the contiguous United States. Olympic has already more than likely seen it’s millionth visitor of the year, as the park draws nearly 400,000 people during the month of June. The increase in attendance is …