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While the predicted Ken Burns “bump” certainly had an effect in some of America’s maximal and grandest domestic parks in 2010, meet as some another parks saw a modify in visitation in the same year.

With 360 of the 392 parks reporting, 188 parks saw an dealing in the sort of visitors, patch 172 saw a downturn.  The bounteous winners were river National Park with a 10 proportionality jump, territory with a 12.4 proportionality increase, Glacier with an process of 9.6 percent, and Glen Canyon with an 8.4 proportionality move in visitation.  Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Grand Canyon every enjoyed more visitors than in 2009. The Evangelist D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway, the conjunctive agency between Grand Teton and Yellowstone, saw a same 7 proportionality process in traffic.

By contrast, the most startling drops in visits took locate at Amistad National Recreation Area with a 38 proportionality drop, on the Blue Ridge Parkway with a 9 proportionality decrease, at Golden Gate National Recreation Area with a 7.6 proportionality drop, and at Gateway National Recreation Area, where visitation declined by 4 percent. Fort Point National Historic Site, conception of the Golden Gate NRA, old a 29 proportionality visitation modify compared to 2009.

Some isolated changes in the sort of visitors crapper be attributed to primary causes. For example, President National Historical Park’s visitation figures returned to normal in 2010, after a 66 proportionality dealing in 2009 when the televised miniseries “John Adams” ventilated on HBO. The White House saw a hammy process in visitors in 2010â€"up by 41 proportionality to 870,363 tourists, a predictable process with the welfare in President Barack Obama and his teen family.  Meanwhile, several of Washington, DC’s most famous monumentsâ€"the World War II Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the Asiatic War Memorial, and the pedagogue Monumentâ€"actually saw declines in visitation in 2010.  Only the attorney Memorial and the warfare Veterans Memorial drew increased numbers of visitors: respectively, 14.9 proportionality and 2.6 proportionality more than in 2009.

Other figures are surprises, including Gulf Islands National Seashore, which actually saw a 3 proportionality process in visitors in 2010â€"even in the grappling of the BP oil spill and expectations of sharp drops in vacationers. Likewise, swampland National Park enjoyed a 2.7 proportionality traveller increase, and modify the far Dry Tortugas, in their precarious function in the Gulf of Mexico soured the coast of Key West, saw a 2 proportionality increase.

If “staycations” kept grouping fireman to home, smaller domestic tract sites old a intermixture activity of benefits and losses.  Richmond National Battlefield Park in Virginia, for example, saw a 5 proportionality modify in visitation, patch nearby Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site old a momentous 25 proportionality increase. poet National Historic Site in Brookline, Mass., enjoyed an 18 proportionality increase, patch Lowell National Historical Parkâ€"just downbound the agency from Bostonâ€"saw a 4 proportionality drop. The variations crossways the land are too great to permit sweeping generalizations most the actuality behind stay-at-home vacations.

 Perhaps the small discussed but most celebrity process in visitors took locate at Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve in Alaska.  Visitation increased from 14 grouping in 2009 to 96 grouping in 2010â€"a staggering 585 proportionality rise. Perhaps this far tract module crack the 100 mark in 2011.