The latest issue of Smokies Guide (the official newspaper for GSMNP) published a list of the average number of serious injuries in the park on an annual basis. I thought these were quite interesting:Motor vehicle related: 250Walking related: 38Bicycle related: 16Horse related: 7Burns: 6Cuts from knives, etc.: 6Tubing related: 5Bee sting reactions: 4Bites from small animals: 3Snake bites: 1JeffHik...
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Visits to Smokies up 37.7% in December
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The latest park visitation statistics show that the number of visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park jumped 37.7% in December versus the same month in 2010. A total of 471,603 visitors entered the park last month, compared to just 342,512 last December.The Cherokee entrance saw the largest improvement: reporting a whopping increase of 75.1% for the month. Gatlinburg saw a 46.1% increase,...
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Great Smoky Mountains historical visitation trends
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Last week the National Park Service Public Use Statistics Office reported that the Great Smoky Mountains ended the year with a total of 9,463,538 visitors to the park in 2010.I was curious to see what the historical trends were for this measure of the country's most visited national park. This same website also provides annual visitation count data going back to 1931. Here's a look at the total number...
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