Local site among NC parks to see big attendance jumps
Charlotte Business Journal
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Visitation at North Carolina state parks and recreation areas eclipsed 20 million people in 2023. It inched up 3.9% from the previous year, but fell from 22.7 million in 2021.
Overall, 29 of the state’s parks and recreation areas saw upticks in visitors in 2023.
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Morrow Mountain State Park in Stanly County saw the biggest uptick in visitation from 2022 to 2023, at 95%. Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, the state’s most-visited site in the system, saw 2.56 million visitors in 2023 — a 25% bump from the previous year.
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