Numbers down, but visitors starting to flock back to Waterton Lakes National Park
WATERTON, AB – Waterton Lakes National Park has been a busy place this weekend, and when you consider the factors behind the numbers, attendance hasn’t diminished too much since the park reopened this year.
Visitor Experience Manager Locke Marshall says despite some popular areas of the park still being closed due to the damage of the Kenow fire, visitation has been very strong.
“As you might remember, 2017 was a real banner year because it was a free attendance year. Visitation was extremely high, but even in the years prior to that the visitation was increasing steadily for quite some time with 2017 and 2016 as the highest years on record,” Marshall said.
This year, the July visitation was 37 per cent lower than 2017 and 22 per cent lower than 2016.