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Park Visitors Up
Visitors to Shenandoah National Park during April ! totaled 312,700 for an increase of 20.5 per cent over April a year ago, when 259,500 people entered the Park. The 1977 calendar year also shows a visitation increase of 11.8 per cent when 610,900 visited in comparison to 546,200 the previous year.
Weather statistics from Big Meadows show the maximum temperature as 78 degrees and the minimum, 14. Precipitation measured 2.23 inches and there was .5 inch of snowfall.
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