Grand Canyon National Park socioeconomic monitoring pilot implementation: Summer 2016
Resource Systems Group (RSG). 2017. Grand Canyon National Park socioeconomic monitoring pilot implementation: Summer 2016. Natural Resource Report. NPS/GRCA/NRR—2017/1488. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
• This report describes the results of a visitor study at Grand Canyon National Park (NP) conducted from July 15 through July 24, 2016. During the sampling period, 1,351 visitor groups were contacted to participate in the survey. Of those groups, 974 agreed to participate in the study by accepting a mail-back survey packet. Questionnaires were completed and returned by 533 visitor groups, resulting in a completion rate of 55% among those visitor groups that agreed to participate in the study and an overall response rate of 40% for the study. • This report profiles a systematic random sample of Grand Canyon NP visitors. Most of the results are presented in graphs and frequency tables. Summaries of visitor comments are included in the body of the report. Verbatim comments are included in the Visitor Comment Appendix (bound separately).
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Resource Systems Group (RSG)
- Date of Issue
- 2017-08
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- GRCA , NRSS , SSB
- Keywords
- demographics, expenditures, experience, monitoring, Socioeconomic, trip planning