As Popularity Wanes, National Parks Try to Adapt ; Sleeping Outdoors has Little Appeal for Many Baby Boomers, Teens
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › December 01, 2006
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As the National Park Service begins planning for its 100th birthday in 2016, the venerable agency has reason to wonder who'll show up.
By the service's own reckoning, visits to national parks have been on a downward slide for 10 years. Overnight stays fell 20 percent between 1995 and 2005, and tent camping and backcountry camping each decreased nearly 24 percent during the same period.See the full content of this document
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As Popularity Wanes, National Parks Try to Adapt ; Sleeping Outdoors has Little Appeal for Many Baby Boomers, Teens
Visits are down at almost all national parks, even at Yosemite, notorious for summertime crowds and traffic jams. Meanwhile, most of the 390 properties in the park system are begging for business.
"Most days, we'd be delighted to s...See the full content of this document
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