Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Wind Cave National Park, 2010
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Wind Cave National Park, 2010. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Wind Cave National Park hosted 577,141 recreation visits in 2010. Adjustments for visitor group size and re-entries resulted in 144,038 visitor group trips to the park in 2010. Based on a 2010 Visitor Services Project (VSP) survey conducted July 27- August 2, 28% of these visitor groups were local residents or non-locals on day trips, not staying overnight within 30 miles of the park.1 Forty-one percent of visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park,1% of visitors groups trips were overnight stays in park campgrounds, and 16% of visitor group trips were overnight stays in campgrounds outside the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-06
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , SSB , WICA
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research