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Information Launch Date: June 16, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO—In 2020, the 13.6 million park guests to Golden Gate Countrywide Recreation Place, Muir Woods National Monument and Fort Position National Historic Site invested $775 million in gateway communities which supported 7,850 local jobs, according to a current Countrywide Park Services report.
Even with the surprising changes introduced by the coronavirus pandemic, visitation at some places of the park increased in 2020. While the park may well have observed much less global website visitors, its beach locations and other scenic coastal locations observed file-location visitation.In 2020, Golden Gate NRA, a single of the most-visited models of the National Park Method, observed a lot more than 12.4 million website visitors, who expended extra than $684 million in nearby communities, supporting 6,862 positions.
The additional than 884,000 guests to Fort Level National Historic Web page, a Civil War era fortress in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, used $52 million in regional communities and supported 620 jobs. In Marin County, the aged-development redwood forest at Muir Woods Nationwide Monument saw a lot more than 324,000 readers, who used $37 million in area communities to add 368 careers.
“The past yr has supplied us a renewed appreciation for parks and the role they perform in supplying for our wellness,” reported Common Superintendent Laura Joss. “Last calendar year, staff eagerly welcomed quite a few readers to our park for the initial time and we anticipate that pattern to proceed in 2021.”
The peer-reviewed visitor shelling out assessment was performed by economists Catherine Cullinane Thomas of the U.S. Geological Survey and Lynne Koontz of the Nationwide Park Services. The report demonstrates $14.5 billion of direct paying out by much more than 237 million park readers in communities inside 60 miles of a countrywide park. This shelling out supported 234,000 work opportunities nationally. The cumulative gain to the U.S. economy was $28.6 billion.
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