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May not be combined with any other offer. Ask inspector for further details. Offer valid through FOR 12 MONTHS! batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: Just read Karen in- teresting article on March 5 on the Blue Ridge visitor statistics. hop- ing you will drill down, tell us how the BRP arrives at their numbers, and answer a few questions. Among my questions are: Do they include or exclude the com- muter between U.S.
70, U.S. 74, and U.S. 25? Is there a break-down on visitors at various spots along the Parkway Craggy Gardens, Graveyard Fields, Visitor Centers, places up around Roanoke, And if so, is that break-down on their website some- where? What are the 10 busiest days on the Parkway? My answer: I just believe to Asheville and Get Your BRP has not caught on as a tourism slogan. This is Beer City USA, you know. Real answer: Ridge Parkway visi- tation numbers are based on a variety of counting procedures and said Leesa Brandon, Blue Ridge Parkway spokeswoman.
counts are primarily organized in three categories: recreation visit counts, nonrecreation visit counts and overnight The category is the most-used visitor use statistic for the Na- tional Park Service. in the Asheville corri- dor, as well as other higher population areas on the Parkway, are backed out of the recre- ation count, and recorded as nonrecreation visit Brandon said. The parkway runs 469 miles from Shen- andoah National Park in Virginia, along the Blue Ridge Mountains into Asheville, before ending in Cherokee at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park entrance. In her story, noted that the Park- way was the most visited unit in the Nation- al Park Service until last year. The scenic roadway had 14.7 million visitors in 2018, 8.8 percent decline from the 16.1 million people who traveled the curvy, mountain- ous road in she wrote.
Now, if you really want to dig down into this, you can do so pretty easily. counts for all National Park Ser- vice sites are available online and can be found through a basic web search for Public Use Brandon said. site has a dozen types of reports for every park that organize the count information by location, month, and even a summary re- port of recreation visits going back to She able to give me the 10 busiest days for the Parkway, but Brandon did note, the busiest months for recrea- tion visits on the Parkway are July and Oc- You can the data for the Blue Ridge Parkway here: ma.nps.gov/Stats/Reports/Park/BLRI I found visitation numbers for Milepost 384.7 on the parkway, which is pretty close to the Visitors Center. In January, it was 32,779 and for February, 35,560. As the reader asked for the numbers at three road sites, I pulled those, but trust me you a lot of data on that site.
Here are the estimated numbers for Feb- ruary 2019 for the three Asheville roads that intersect with the Parkway: at U.S. 70: February 2019 46,232, up from 43,398 in February 2018, a 6.5 percent increase. For 2019, the tally was 89,534, up from 69,565 in 2018, a 28.7 per- cent increase. at U.S. 74: February 2019 48,545, up from 41,602 in 2018, a 16.7 per- cent increase.
For 2019, the tally was 94,075, up from 75,176 in 2018, a 25.1 per- cent increase. at U.S. 25: February 2019 66,095, up from 61,015 in 2018, an 8.3 per- cent increase. For 2019, the tally was 125,812, up from 105,914 in 2018, an 18.8 per- cent increase. This is the opinion of John Boyle.
Contact him at 828-232-5847 or times.com. A car passes through Feb. 27 where a tree once blocked the Blue Ridge Parkway. The parkway had more than 1 million fewer visitors in 2018 due to weather, repairs and the government shutdown, knocking it off the No. 1 spot in the National Park Service.
ANGELA Blue Ridge Parkway visits explained Answer Man John Boyle Asheville Citizen Times USA TODAY NETWORK.
