Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Fort Larned National Historic Site, 2009
Cook PS. 2011. Impacts of Visitor Spending on the Local Economy: Fort Larned National Historic Site, 2009. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Larned National Historic Site hosted 27,443 recreation visits in 2009. Adjustments for visitor group size and re-entries resulted in 10,746 visitor group trips to the park in 2009. Based on a 2009 Visitor Services Project (VSP) survey conducted May 25-June 27, 41% of these visitor group trips were day trips not including an overnight stay 60 miles of the park.1 Forty-two percent of the visitor group trips involved an overnight stay in motels, lodges or cabins outside the park, and 7% of visitor group trips were overnight stays in campgrounds outside the park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Cook, Philip
- Date of Issue
- 2011-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- EQD , FOLS , SSB
- Keywords
- focus group research, stakeholder (or public) survey research, visitor monitoring, Visitor Services Project, visitor survey research