Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Carlsbad Caverns

The item yesterday suggested that a declining attendance at Carlsbad Caverns National Park represented a big challenge to the buyer or buyers of White City. Here are some sample numbers for "recreation visits" to the Caverns.
2007 - 409,560
2002 - 476,259
1997 - 540,797
1992 - 688,742
1987 - 781,300
1982 - 781,963
The cuo-half-full approach might be that 400,000 visitors is still a lot of people.
The pattern for White Sands National Monument is different. A look at the same five-year intervals shows visits growing to a peak in 1997 of 629,509 and then dropping to 437,042 in 2007.

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