{"id":9492,"date":"2014-03-05T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2014-03-06T07:24:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:24:47","slug":"yellowstone-and-grand-teton-top-list-in-visitor-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonegate.com\/?p=9492","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone and Grand Teton near top of list in visitor spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only a handful of National Park Service destinations generate the magnitude of spending by visitors in gateway communities as the powerful duo of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.<\/p>\n

The 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway cresting the southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina is the only Park Service attraction to fuel more visitor spending than Yellowstone and Grand Teton, according to a Park Service report released this week titled 2012 National Park Visitor Spending Effects.<\/p>\n

The report by the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Office in Fort Collins, Colo., also provides some insights into visitors’ spending patterns, and a companion study looks at the economic impact to gateways of the October 2013 government shutdown.<\/p>\n

Based on visitor surveys from the 2012 study period, the report estimates visitors to the Blue Ridge Parkway spent $902.5 million at gateway businesses, compared to a combined $892.3 million around Yellowstone, Grand Teton and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway which connects the two.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the “top 10” visitor spending destinations were Great Smoky Mountains National Park, $741.5 million; Grand Canyon National Park, $453.6 million; Yosemite, $378.8 million; Denali National Park, $371.5 million; Golden Gate National Recreation Area, $337.9 million; Lake Mead National Recreation Area, $252.2 million; Jefferson Memorial, $228.3 million; and Olympic National Park, $220 million.<\/p>\n

On a statewide basis, the report calculates that visitors to NPS destinations spent the most in California, $1.5 billion in 2012, followed by North Carolina, $1.1 billion, Alaska, 1.06 billion, Virginia, $926 million, and Wyoming, ranking fifth, $721 million.<\/p>\n

Visitor spending in Wyoming includes the gateways to Devils Tower National Monument, $24.5 million, Nez Perce National Historic Trail, 12.5 million, Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, $9.8 million, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, $2.9 million, and Fossil Butte National Monument, $787,000.<\/p>\n

The report, 2012 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, also analyzes job creation and resulting economic spinoffs to gateway communities. It’s online at http:\/\/www.nature.nps.gov\/socialscience\/docs\/NPSVSE2012_final_nrss.pdf.<\/p>\n

“Our national parks help propel our nation’s economy, drawing hundreds of millions of visitors who are the lifeblood of the hotels, restaurants, outfitters, and other local businesses that depend on a vibrant and reliable tourism and outdoor recreation industry supported by our public lands,” said Interior\u00a0Secretary Sally Jewell.<\/p>\n

Among other findings, the 2012 economic analysis states that most visitor spending supports jobs in restaurants, grocery and convenience stores (39 percent); hotels, motels and bed-and-breakfasts (27 percent); \u00a0and other amusement and recreation (20 percent).<\/p>\n

A companion study, the 2013 Government Shutdown Report<\/a>, estimates that the shutdown of the federal government the first two weeks of October cost the gateway communities about $25 million compared to previous Octobers.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> This story has been corrected to accurately state the length of the Blue Ridge Parkway.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only a handful of National Park Service destinations generate the magnitude of spending by visitors in gateway communities as the powerful duo of Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.<\/p>\n

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