Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Fossil Butte National Monument, 2010
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Fossil Butte National Monument, 2010. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Fossil Butte National Monument hosted 19,700 recreation visits in 2010. Adjustments for visitor group size and re-entries resulted in 6,918 visitor group trips to the park in 2010. Based on a 2010 Visitor Services Project survey conducted August 1-8, 50% of these visitor group trips were day trips not including an overnight stay within 30 miles of the park.1 Thirty percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park, and 13% of visitor group trips included overnight stays in campgrounds outside the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-08
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , FOBU , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research