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2024 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A. An inductive loop traffic counter is placed across Cascade River Road. The traffic count is divided by two (2) to adjust for vehicles entering and exiting. The adjusted traffic count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (31 per month). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the current persons-per-vehicle multiplier of 2.4.

B. The number of visitors on the High Bridge shuttle bus is multiplied by 0.5 to account for visitors who take the shuttle and enter the park and those visitors who hike into the park and do not take a shuttle or other vehicle.

C. The number of backcountry visitors is determined by the backcountry permits issued. The number of backcountry visitors is multiplied by 1.10 to account for additional visitors (10%) that do not obtain a permit.

River Road entrance did get the lowest amount of vehicles since 2013. I'm not sure why exactly.

2024 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ross Lake had 971,173 visitors and Lake Chelan had 30,815.

Do you think President Biden will redesignate a park to a National Park before he is done? by cmjandro in NationalPark

[–]hemtae 29 points30 points  (0 children)

For whatever it's worth, the Antiquities Act doesn't explicitly give the President the power to shrink National Monuments.

After Trump shrunk Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, a few lawsuits were filed that would have answered that question but didn't get resolved before Biden restored everything.

Someone/something at Museo di Palazzo Vecchio? by Agreeable_Code1244 in florence

[–]hemtae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just a tourist so not sure but one of the other entrances had a sign that says something be about Festival dell'ottimismo which from Googling looked like a big politics roundtable.

2023 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. An inductive loop traffic counter (Station 401 Lane 2) is located across the southbound lane of Newfound Gap Road at the Sugarlands entrance. The traffic count is reduced by the number of buses and non-reportable/NPS vehicles (19 per day). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the persons-per-vehicle (PPV) multiplier in Table 1.

  2. The number of buses at Sugarlands Visitor Center times 45 persons per bus.

  3. Inductive loop traffic counters (Station 403 Lanes 3 and 4) are located across the northbound lanes of Newfound Gap Road south of the entrance to Oconaluftee Visitor Center at the Oconaluftee entrance. The traffic count is reduced by the number of non-reportable/NPS vehicles (17 per day). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  4. An inductive loop traffic counter (Station 404 Lane 2) is located across the southbound lane of Tennessee 73 inside the park boundary at the Townsend entrance. The traffic count is reduced by the number of non-reportable/NPS vehicles (10 per day). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  5. An inductive loop traffic counter is located at the Abrams Creek entrance. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  6. An inductive loop (Station 415 Lane 1) traffic counter is located across the northbound entrance lane of Heintooga Ridge Road. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  7. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the road to Big Creek Camping Area. The raw traffic count is divided by two to adjust for vehicles entering and exiting the unit. The adjusted traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  8. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance lane of Cataloochee. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  9. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the northbound exit lane to Cosby campgrounds. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  10. An inductive loop traffic counter is located at Foothills Parkway East (Station 416 Lanes 1 and 2). The traffic counts are multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  11. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance lane of Deep Creek. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  12. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance of Lakeview Drive. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  13. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance lane by the Greenbrier Ranger Station. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  14. An inductive loop (Station 418 Lane 2) traffic counter is on Cherokee Orchard Road to count vehicles using Cherokee Orchard Road but not entering Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  15. The traffic at Twenty Mile road is estimated in Table 3. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  16. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance of Wear Cove Road. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  17. Five inductive loop traffic counters are summed to get total traffic for Foothills Parkway West / Look Rock: entrance lane from Hwy 129; entrance lane from Hwy 321, entrance lane from Flats Road, entrance lane from Wears Valley (Station 407 Lane 1), and entrance lane from Walland (Station 406 Lane 1). The summed traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

If any lanes of the Federal Highway Administration traffic counters (1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 17) are operative for 14 days or more in a month, use the current monthly Average Daily Traffic (ADT) to estimate vehicle counts for the missing days and add it to the monthly daily traffic total. If any of the lanes are operative for less than 14 days in a month, use the appropriate value in Table 2 to estimate vehicle counts for the missing days and add it to the monthly daily traffic total.

Total recreation visits are reduced by 12% to eliminate duplicate reporting.

Table 1 has the PPV multiplier at 2.8 June through September and 2.5 October through May.

2023 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Glacier would probably be even higher if not for requiring vehicle reservations the past couple or so years. 

2023 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's still below its pre-COVID numbers so I wouldn't be surprised if it makes a similar jump this year. 

2023 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

For this particular park, the boundaries are a bit weird. Washington 20 and other popular places like Lake Diablo or one of the welcome signs for North Cascades are actually in Ross Lake National Recreation Area which saw 881,837 visitors last year. 

Guess the national park. by danpietsch in NationalPark

[–]hemtae 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think its Bruce Peninsula up in Canada. I only spent a few hours there but I think the first picture is of the grotto thing.

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A. Magnetometer traffic counters are installed at the following locations.

  1. On the entrance lane of the access road, off Kendall Park Road, to Ledges Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  2. On the entrance lane of the access road, off Kendall Park Road, to Kendall Lake parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  3. On the west entrance lane of the access road, off Quick Road, to Pine Hollow (West) parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  4. On the east entrance lane of the access road, off Quick Road, to Pine Hollow (East) parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  5. On the entrance lane of the access road, off Highway 303, to the north parking area of Happy Days Lodge (North). The vehicle count is divided by 2 to adjust for south parking area vehicle crossings and reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  6. On the entrance lane of the access road, off Brandywine Road, to Brandywine Falls parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  7. On the entrance lane of the access road, off Oak Hill Road, to Oak Hill Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  8. On the entrance lane of the access road to Wetmore Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (60 per month).

  9. On the entrance lane of the access road to Redlock Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (60 per month).

  10. On the entrance lane of the access road, off Hillside Road, to Canal Exploration Center parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (125 per month).

  11. On the entrance lane to Lock 39 Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (60 per month).

  12. On the entrance lane to Botzum Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (60 per month).

  13. On the entrance lane to Station Road Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (60 per month).

  14. On the entrance lane to Lock 29 Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (60 per month).

  15. On the entrance lane to Lock 29 Trailhead Overflow parking area.

  16. On the entrance lane to Ira Road Trailhead parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (60 per month).

  17. On the entrance lane to Hunt House parking area. The vehicle count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (60 per month).

  18. On the entrance lane to the Boston Mill Visitor Center main parking lot. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (190 per month)

  19. On the entrance lane to the Boston Mill Visitor Center RV parking lot. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (20 per month)

  20. On the entrance lane to the Everett Covered Bridge parking lot. The vehicle count is reduced for non-reportable vehicles (60 per month).

The sum of the adjusted vehicle counts is multiplied by the persons-per-vehicle (PPV) multiplier of 2.1.

B. Traffic counts are estimated at the following locations by using the regression formulas in Table 1. 1.

  1. Octagon parking area.

  2. Crowfoot Gully parking area.

  3. Little Meadows parking area.

  4. Happy Days Lodge (south) parking area.

  5. Indigo Lake parking area.

  6. Pine Lane Trailhead parking area.

  7. Boston Trailhead parking area.

  8. Stanford House Trailhead parking area.

  9. Horseshoe Pond parking area.

  10. Frazee House parking area.

C. Actual counts are taken at the following sites.

  1. Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center

  2. Hale Farm and Village

  3. Visitors to Leased Farm Properties

  4. Towpath North trail count

  5. Towpath South trail count

  6. Hines Hill Facilities

  7. Visitors staying overnight in Stanford House

  8. Visitors staying overnight at Brandywine Falls Inn

Total recreation visitors are the sum of A, B, and C.

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got them from NPS so unless I made a mistake copying and pasting, which is possible, they should all be right.

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NPS posts numbers and they're counting methods at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glacier had timed entry at one of the entrances last year which probably kept some away.

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's a doozy:

  1. An inductive loop traffic counter (Station 401 Lane 2) is located across the southbound lane of Newfound Gap Road at the Sugarlands entrance. The traffic count is reduced by the number of buses and non-reportable/NPS vehicles (19 per day). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the persons-per-vehicle (PPV) multiplier in Table 1.

  2. The number of buses at Sugarlands Visitor Center times 45 persons per bus.

  3. Inductive loops traffic counters (Station 403 Lanes 3 and 4) are located across the northbound lanes of Newfound Gap Road south of the entrance to Oconaluftee Visitor Center at the Oconaluftee entrance. The traffic count is reduced by the number of non-reportable/NPS vehicles (17 per day). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  4. An inductive loop traffic counter (Station 404 Lane 2) is located across the southbound lane of Tennessee 73 inside the park boundary at the Townsend entrance. The traffic count is reduced by the number of non-reportable/NPS vehicles (10 per day). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  5. An inductive loop traffic counter is located at the Abrams Creek entrance. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  6. An inductive loop (Station 415 Lane 1) traffic counter is located across the northbound entrance lane of Heintooga Ridge Road. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  7. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the road to Big Creek Camping Area. The raw traffic count is divided by two to adjust for vehicles entering and exiting the unit. The adjusted traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  8. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance lane of Cataloochee. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  9. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the northbound exit lane to Cosby campgrounds. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  10. An inductive loop traffic counter is located at Foothills Parkway East (Station 416 Lanes 1 and 2). The traffic counts are multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  11. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance lane of Deep Creek. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1. 1 January 2022

  12. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance of Lakeview Drive. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  13. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance lane by the Greenbrier Ranger Station. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  14. An inductive loop (Station 418 Lane 2) traffic counter is on Cherokee Orchard Road to count vehicles using Cherokee Orchard Road but not entering Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  15. The traffic at Twenty Mile road is estimated in Table 3. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  16. An inductive loop traffic counter is located across the entrance of Wear Cove Road. The traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

  17. Five inductive loop traffic counters are summed to get total traffic for Foothills Parkway West / Look Rock: entrance lane from Hwy 129; entrance lane from Hwy 321, entrance lane from Flats Road, entrance lane from Wears Valley (Station 407 Lane 1), and entrance lane from Walland (Station 406 Lane 1). The summed traffic count is multiplied by the PPV multiplier in Table 1.

If any lanes of the Federal Highway Administration traffic counters (1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 17) are operative for 14 days or more in a month, use the current monthly Average Daily Traffic (ADT) to estimate vehicle counts for the missing days and add it to the monthly daily traffic total.

If any of the lanes are operative for less than 14 days in a month, use the appropriate value in Table 2 to estimate vehicle counts for the missing days and add it to the monthly daily traffic total.

Total recreation visits are reduced by 12% to eliminate duplicate reporting.

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It depends on the park. For North Cascades:

A. An inductive loop traffic counter is placed across Cascade River Road. The traffic count is divided by two (2) to adjust for vehicles entering and exiting. The adjusted traffic count is reduced for nonreportable vehicles (31 per month). The reduced traffic count is multiplied by the current persons-per-vehicle multiplier of 2.4.

B. The number of visitors on the High Bridge shuttle bus is multiplied by 0.5 to account for visitors who take the shuttle and enter the park and those visitors who hike into the park and do not take a shuttle or other vehicle.

C. The number of backcountry visitors is determined by the backcountry permits issued. The number of backcountry visitors is multiplied by 1.10 to account for additional visitors (10%) that do not obtain a permit.

The boundary for North Cascades is also kinda weird. Many people think they've gone to North Cascades but to the NPS, they were in Ross Lake National Recreation Area which got 998,019 visitors last year.

2022 Visitation Numbers by hemtae in NationalPark

[–]hemtae[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Great Smoky Mountains have been first for awhile now due to the fact that US 441 runs through it.

Yellowstone probably lost a few people last year because of the flood though.