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Pair skies and hot weather helped make August a reteordbreaking travel month at Shenandoah National Park, Superintendent Taylor Hoskins said. With 305.398 visitors, the month exceeded any previouse August by 6c/c and. was higher than any ifnonth ever recordede in the Park, The previous record was set ni October 1955 when 288.791 visitors), were counted.
This heavy travel continues the trend, evident all year, toward the biggest visitation in history, The Park now stands 81,043 ahead of any other travel year, and 103,577 ahead of the comparable neribd last year. A 1959 total of 1% million seems probable at this timei
On Sunday, August 16, 1959, 16.099 persons visited the Park, t)ie peak day for the month.
64.6%