National parks see record numbers; Trump wants to keep it quiet

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Visitors during a foggy day at Grand Canyon National Park, which saw about 4.9 million visitors last year. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

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It just keeps getting weirder. Last week, the National Park Service finalized visitor numbers for 2024, finding that nearly 332 million people visited the nation’s national parks, monuments, recreation …