Overnight Stay: One night within a park by a visitor. A party of 2 visitors staying over for 3 nights yields 6 overnight stays.
moldy_walrus on
Very cool map but I’m pretty sure petrified forest NP has 0 spots as it’s closed at night.
bobeeflay on
There’s a lot of good camping spots in grand canyon park but I assume most of those numbers are the river
You should go do it. Put your name in the drawing its a once in a lifetime experience that comes up every year
runningoutofwords on
Seems odd. Arches only has four backcountry campsites in the whole park. 3 in Courthouse Wash, and 1 in Devil’s Garden
Nonplussed2 on
Wow, surprised GC is so much higher than others. I bet it includes rafting trips. There aren’t that many campgrounds in GC.
SEKI seems low considering how common it is to cross over from the east side wildernesses. I wonder if they are including an estimate for those since there is no national park permit issued — or even any way for them to definitively know that someone camped inside the park boundaries in those cases. (The same is true for Yosemite but not as common.)
Really surprised Arches is so big, too, with so few campgrounds and an environment hostile to most backpackers. Over double Zion? Hmm.
Zultan27 on
I didn’t realize you could overnight at Dry Tortuga. Definitely on the bucket list.
PaulOshanter on
Camping in the everglades outside of the month of January has got to be a miserable experience
JM3DlCl on
Weird that there is 0 in New Hampshire. The most forested state….
chucklesduck on
You will get carried off by mosquitos at Everglades national park.
Tweeedles on
Is Hot Springs NP in AR closed at night or something? Might be relocating to NWAR and am taking it as a personal challenge to change that 0 to not a 0 LOL
tonkatoyelroy on
I most certainly camped in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park last year.
worksafe_Joe on
The Arch in St. Louis shouldn’t be a national park. When I think national park I don’t picture a stainless steel structure.
costac12 on
It could be me but it looks like canyonlands NP doesn’t have a data point
machismo_eels on
Perhaps this should be normalized for visitation?
spaceman60 on
So you’re saying that I would be the first overnight camper at the Gateway Arch? Let’s do this…
AwixaManifest on
Brave souls at Congaree.
The Skeeter Meter was at a moderate level the day I visited. I wore long sleeves and pants, tucked my shirt in, and used DEET. Still got bitten to hell in about two hours.
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Source: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-statistics-dashboard.htm
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Overnight Stay: One night within a park by a visitor. A party of 2 visitors staying over for 3 nights yields 6 overnight stays.
Very cool map but I’m pretty sure petrified forest NP has 0 spots as it’s closed at night.
There’s a lot of good camping spots in grand canyon park but I assume most of those numbers are the river
You should go do it. Put your name in the drawing its a once in a lifetime experience that comes up every year
Seems odd. Arches only has four backcountry campsites in the whole park. 3 in Courthouse Wash, and 1 in Devil’s Garden
Wow, surprised GC is so much higher than others. I bet it includes rafting trips. There aren’t that many campgrounds in GC.
SEKI seems low considering how common it is to cross over from the east side wildernesses. I wonder if they are including an estimate for those since there is no national park permit issued — or even any way for them to definitively know that someone camped inside the park boundaries in those cases. (The same is true for Yosemite but not as common.)
Really surprised Arches is so big, too, with so few campgrounds and an environment hostile to most backpackers. Over double Zion? Hmm.
I didn’t realize you could overnight at Dry Tortuga. Definitely on the bucket list.
Camping in the everglades outside of the month of January has got to be a miserable experience
Weird that there is 0 in New Hampshire. The most forested state….
You will get carried off by mosquitos at Everglades national park.
Is Hot Springs NP in AR closed at night or something? Might be relocating to NWAR and am taking it as a personal challenge to change that 0 to not a 0 LOL
I most certainly camped in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park last year.
The Arch in St. Louis shouldn’t be a national park. When I think national park I don’t picture a stainless steel structure.
It could be me but it looks like canyonlands NP doesn’t have a data point
Perhaps this should be normalized for visitation?
So you’re saying that I would be the first overnight camper at the Gateway Arch? Let’s do this…
Brave souls at Congaree.
The Skeeter Meter was at a moderate level the day I visited. I wore long sleeves and pants, tucked my shirt in, and used DEET. Still got bitten to hell in about two hours.