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Visitors poured into US national parks and related sites in 2021 -- especially paying calls to the marquee names. No. 10 was Zion National Park in Utah. Find out the nine places that beat it.
(CNN) — Stir-crazy from the pandemic, visitors poured into US national parks and related sites last year -- and they especially paid calls to the marquee names.
Roughly 297.1 million total visits were recorded in 2021 by the National Park Service, which released an in-depth visitation report on Wednesday.
The NPS said that last year's visitation increased by 60 million over 2020. That's when Covid-19 closed facilities in most parks for at least part of the year. Across the entire National Park System, the numbers still remained below pre-pandemic totals.
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