Florida’s state parks were very popular
destinations in December.
The Florida Park Service marked record-breaking
attendance for December 2011; nearly one and a half million visitors visited
one of the state’s 160 state parks.
There were
nearly 450 thousand more visitors at Florida’s state parks than a year earlier.
A total of
20.4 million people visited a state park during the last fiscal year which had
an estimated economic impact of more than $967 million for local communities.
Nearly 193
thousand people visited the St. George Island state park last year – making it the
county’s most popular state park – it had an economic impact to the county of
over 9 million dollars.
The John Gorrie Museum in Apalachicola saw nearly 2500 visitors and the
Orman House about 4800.
The Bald
Point state park at Alligator Point drew over 33 thousand visitors.
The St. Joseph Peninsula state park saw 163 thousand visitors
over the past year.
There’s a
full list of all the state parks in Northwest Florida
along with their visitation and economic impact totals posted on the news page
at oysterradio.com.
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