Outdoor Recreation Economy Surpasses One Trillion Mark

It’d be nice, though the park service has reported out their economic contribution to the local economies for a long time with no discernible positive impact on their budgets. Staff cuts, operations and maintenance cuts just keep growing.

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While the latest deferred maintenance total blooms to 22.3 Billion dollars. Getting desperate enough in one of the most visited parks that Great Smoky Mountains had to implement a parking fee system, though as yet imperfectly done as vehicles without a parking tag have zero enforcement done to them. .

www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/deferred-maintenance.htm