I'm Jason Eperson. This is RV Miles and it's time for this week's RV and camping news roundup.

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In last week's news from the parks episode we shared some explosive visitation numbers from a few

of America's top national parks. Well now the national park services full annual visitation

report is out and surprisingly system-wide visitation for 2021 was slightly below pre-pandemic levels.

But the park still received just under 300 million recreation visits last year.

That reduction could be related to still-in-place visitor limitations at many park service facilities

especially smaller historical sites like presidential homes that aren't currently offering tours.

There's also the timed entry and reservations at some of the most major national parks.

Of the 423 parks in the national park system just 25 received more than half of the total of visitors.

44 parks set a record for recreation visits in 2021. The national park service is recommending that

if you're looking to visit a major national park in 2022 you might consider combining your trip

with smaller less visited sites in the area. With more and more visitors public land managers are

trying to find ways to cope. In Arizona's Coconino National Forest the Forest Service is severely

limiting where camping can happen in the Sedona area with what they call emergency closures.

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