Yellowstone and Grand Teton See Record Visits

Above, Grand Teton's Mount Moran is reflected on the waters of Jackson Lake. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This comes as no surprise.

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming are recording record visits since the trending down of the coronavirus pandemic. People suffering from "cabin fever" for over a year are heading out to those parks.

The Casper Star-Tribune reported:

If you visited one of Wyoming’s national parks recently, you’re hardly alone.

This year, Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks reported their highest first quarter visitation numbers since they started collecting such data roughly 30 years ago, a state report says. Yellowstone recorded almost 108,000 visits and Grand Teton saw over 194,000. Those represent increases of 20.7% and 22.8% from 2020, respectively.

While it’s not surprising that more people visited the parks in 2021 because of “the trending down of the pandemic,” this year also recorded significant increases compared with 2019. Until this year, 2019 had generated the highest first quarter visit numbers for the two parks. But compared with 2019, visits were up 14% and 17% this year for Yellowstone and Grand Teton, respectively.

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