“I know that the parks are trying to do everything they can, the question is how much can they actually do with limited resources.”
Members of the media and the Hualapai tribe take a preview walk on the Skywalk, which extends 70 feet from the western Grand Canyon's rim more than 4,000 feet above the Colorado River on the Hualapai Reservation, at Grand Canyon, Arizona, on March 20, 2007.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
“I know that the parks are trying to do everything they can, the question is how much can they actually do with limited resources,” Phil Francis, the head of the Coalition to Protect Americas National Parks, said.There were more than 318 million recreational visits to national parks in 2018, according to the National Park Service. While that was down 3.8 percent from the 330 million the year before, it was still the third highest year for visits behind 2016 and 2017.
The National Park Service did not immediately respond to request for comment on the number of deaths in national parks per year.Francis said it was very important for visitors to plan ahead and learn as much as possible about the parks, including the best times of year to visit and weather patterns like extreme heat or cold.
“It’s like a cognitive disconnect between danger as an opportunity for self-expression or danger as actual danger and that’s more and more common,” he said.
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