Travel Brief National Parks Visitation

AP Features - 716 days ago
Travel Brief National Parks Visitation
FILE - In this 2009, Aug. 16, file photo, President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia Obama, 11, Sasha Obama, 8, with Interpretive Park Ranger Scott Kraynak look out over Hopi Point as they tour the Grand Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. Ten million more people visited national parks last year than in 2008, according to final statistics from the National Park Service, though the numbers fell short of the all-time record for park visitation from 1987. The agency said one possible factor in the increase over 2008 may have been publicity from visits last summer by the Obama family to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon,File)