Montana
2.9M people visited Glacier National Park in 2022
WEST GLACIER – An estimated 2,908,458 million folks paid a go to to Glacier Nationwide Park in 2022, maintaining it among the many most-visited nationwide parks.
Park officers launched the determine on Tuesday, noting that the variety of guests dropped 5.6% from 2021, primarily due largely to a drop in visitation in January, March, April, October, November, and December. Nonetheless, month-to-month information had been set for February and September.
Glacier Nationwide Park has persistently hosted close to 3 million guests annually for the final 5 years — besides in 2020 resulting from pandemic-related closures.
The checklist under exhibits the annual development for recreation visits over the past a number of years.
- 2022- 2,908,458
- 2021- 3,081,656
- 2020- 1,698,864 (Park closed March 24 to June 8, east facet of the park remained closed)
- 2019- 3,049,839
- 2018- 2,965,309
- 2017- 3,305,512 (Highest on file)
Whereas Glacier stays some of the visited parks within the nation, park officers say in a information launch “that the automobile reservation pilot program has efficiently unfold visitation all through the day throughout peak hours on Going-to-the-Solar Street leading to fewer closures, higher site visitors administration, and a extra satisfying park expertise throughout peak season.”
The desk under exhibits recreation visitation for peak season, June by way of August, over the past a number of years.
| Location | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| West Entrance | 821,333 | 916,493 | 876,322 | 1,011,138 | 864,798 | 983,780 |
| Saint Mary | 388,687 | 349,072 | Closed | 481,301 | 486,677 | 745,461 |
| Many Glacier | 262,471 | 261,287 | Closed | 256,192 | 267,339 | 291,191 |
| Two Medication | 179,717 | 193,289 | Closed | 145,886 | 155,323 | 146,079 |
| Camas | 70,327 | 87,121 | 110,627 | 89,206 | 89,141 | 93,575 |
| Polebridge | 53,608 | 70,766 | 72,571 | 59,032 | 55,027 | 82,266 |
| Goat Lick/ Walton | 119,838 | 137,704 | 56,279 | 113,919 | 141,042 | 112,379 |
Glacier is among the 10 most-visited nationwide parks within the nation, and ranks #31 amongst all 387 Nationwide Park Service sights.
Further details about park visitation, together with how the above numbers had been calculated, will be discovered at https://www.nps.gov/index.htm.
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