Description
The NPS Social Science Program is responsible for coordinating visitor use
statistics reporting for units administered by the NPS. ‘Visitor Use Statistics’
refers to a formal set of statistics collected by the National Park Service that
address how many people visit parks and how long they stay. Program staff work
with parks to develop appropriate data collection procedures and provide quality
control for visitor use data. Such coordination ensures that visitor use data
are consistent and reliable throughout all units of the National Park System.
This data package contains data collected from 1979-2024.
Detailed instructions for the units that collect data, monthly visitation
summaries, and reports displaying trends in park visitation are available on the
NPS Visitor Use Statistics website (https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/).
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main_Data.csv | CSV | Main Visitor Use Statistics Dataset, 1979-2024 | Open resource |
| Main_State_Data.csv | CSV | Main State Visitor Use Statistics Dataset, 2016-2024 | Open resource |
| NPS_VUStats_Data_2024_metadata.xml | XML | EML Metadata | Open resource |