Though
visits to national parks across the US remained stable in 2017, new
stats reveal that visitors stayed longer, spending more time enjoying
the natural surroundings last year than they did in 2016.
According
to the latest figures from the National Park Service (NPS), parks
across the US received 330,882,751 million visits in 2017 -- just
slightly less than the record-setting number of 330,971,689 visits made
in 2016.
Interestingly,
despite the marginal dip in 2017, number crunchers noted that visitors
spent 19 million more hours at parks last year compared to 2016.
One
of the biggest events of the year was the total solar eclipse, which
attracted visitors in record numbers to several parks across the
country.
Source: Yahoo News
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