The halt is hitting seasonal workers at parks, where staff shortages can mean fewer visitor programs, neglected bathrooms and ...

Long before Hurricane Helene hit the Smokies, the National Park Service already knew the visitation count for 2024 would be ...

National Park recreational visits dropped nearly 7% year-over-year in Dec. to 15,226,874 from 16,293,521 in a seasonally slow month, while visits slipped by 2% for all of 2024 to 320,086,808 from ...

The country’s most-visited national park had its lowest number of visits since 2018. The drop can't be attributed entirely to ...

Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park both welcomed the second highest number of visitors on record last year, according to visitation data released by the National Park Service late ...

The National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics Office began looking ... The park service “observed an average decrease in monthly visitation of 8%” in the Smokies, Barak said.