The National Association of State Park Directors holds and Annual Information Exchange, including sharing and summarizing visitation statistics. The stats show that the rapid growth peaked around 2000 and even decreased somewhat (in spite of continued population growth).
Note that National Park visitation has been plateaued since 1987 (highest level ever).
Year | Millions of Visits |
1975 1985 1995 2000 2001 2003 2005 2006 2007 | 471 660 746 767 735 735 715 711 740 |
Source: Ken Cordel, Carter Beta and Gary Green, 'Nature-based Outdoor Recreation Trends and Wilderness', International Journal of Wilderness (August 2008, Volume 14, Number 2)
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