Park visits down
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These bison found the grazing to their liking Sunday near the entrance to the visitors center at the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The number of visitors to the park this summer has declined from previous years.
MEDORA – Visitation to North Dakota’s National Parks has been both up and down this summer.
Park officials are not sure why, but if North Dakota is following a trend that has been developing in the rest of the country this summer, the increasing cost of travel might be to blame.
The decline in visitation has been most noticeable at the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Visits were down a whopping 30 percent in June as compared to a year earlier.
“That’s really been a dramatic drop in visitation for that park.
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