Data Dump: National Park visitation 2023

The public lands onslaught continues

At about this time last year I asked: “Are the national parks crowds subsiding?” The answer, it now appears, is “Hell no!” While the post-Covid visitation surge to the national parks I keep an eye on did die down a bit in 2022, it bounced right back — in most cases — in 2023. That leads me to believe that the temporary easing of the crowds in 2022 was d…