Visitors spent $371M at Texas’ National Parks last year

Heading to one in all Texas’ nationwide parks this summer time? Chances are high you are going to purchase some jerky, peanuts, gasoline and, should you’re feeling old-school, a compass.

Practically 6 million guests traveled to Texas nationwide park properties in 2021, spending greater than $371 million, per new information launched by the Nationwide Park Service.

The massive image: Texas has 14 Nationwide Park Service websites. This consists of two nationwide parks — Huge Bend and Guadalupe Mountains Nationwide Park — and 12 nationwide park lands, together with nationwide monuments, recreation areas, nationwide preserves and extra.

By the numbers: The properties generated practically $580 million in financial exercise final yr, the best the determine has been since officers started monitoring the information in 2012.

• On the San Antonio Missions, a nationwide historic park and the one UNESCO World Heritage web site in Texas, 1.3 million vacationers generated greater than $104 million in customer spending in 2021 — essentially the most of any NPS web site within the state.
• Park land in Texas generates 5,410 jobs.

Of notice: NPS measures financial output as the overall estimated worth of the manufacturing of products and companies from customer spending close to park lands.

Between the traces: Greater than 95% of Texas land is in personal fingers.

• California, 48% of which is privately owned, has 9 nationwide parks.

Nicole’s thought bubble: Take a day journey to Johnson Metropolis, residence of Lyndon B. Johnson Nationwide Historic Park.

• The LBJ Ranch driving tour lets you see the one-room Junction Faculty, which the previous president briefly attended as a 4-year-old, the “Texas White Home,” his airplane hangar and extra.
• Professional tip: Cease at a Johnson Metropolis vineyard in your manner residence.