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national parks across the nation are down and this is attributed to busier people with more recreation outlets available to them. She said through July of this year, the park has had 506.200 visitors but will still end up with over a million visitors annually.

The park has numbered over a million visitors a year for the past three years. She said park attendance is often more affected by weather which in several recent years was quite bad. but there has been a steady decrease.

For Rappahannock, particularly in Sperry ville, this can reduce incidental stops at restaurants. Some shops and restaurants in the last few miles a driver approaches the park are closed or appear to be out of business.

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