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Park Services Cites
Record-Break Year
The past year has been a record-breaking one in Shenandoah National Park, announced Superintendent R. Taylor Hoskins. More Park visitors enjoyed Skyline Drive on one day, on one weekend, during one month, and throughout the year than ever before.
The annual total was 2,400,869, which exceeds last year’s visitation by 6%, and the previous record set in 1966 by 2%. Total visitation to Shenandoah National Park first reached 1,000,000 in 1941, then dropped during the war years, and did not top the 1 million mark again until 1949. After a steady increase the 2 million level was reached in 1962 and the total hovered around 2V4 million until this year.
Monthly totals for 1969 indicate, a slight declining trend during the hot summer months and substantial increases for spring and fall. In May and October monthly records were broken and in October this year an all-time monthly record was set of 462,000 visitors, which exceeds by 5% the previous monthly record set in July 1965. Unusually good weather was experienced each weekend and throughout the month oi October.
At the height of the fall color season nearly 79,000 visitors entered the Park on the weekend of October 18 and 19, breaking all 2-day records. Also, a daily record of 45,000 persons was set on Sunday, October 19. Also in 1969, a record-breaking number of campers, 288,000 were noted.
Several special and unusual events were noted in the last year of the decade, 1969. Mother Nature initiated the year with s devastating ice storm on January 21 which caused major damage tc
C&P will again step up their construction program. In 1970, for instance, the company plans to spend over $1,000,000 in the Culpeper area -- nearly double that of 1969.
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