'Make your reservations early': How the pandemic impacted Inland Northwest state park visits

Visitations so far in 2021 have increased nearly 14% compared to 2020.
Author: Mark Hanrahan, Mia Hunt
Published: 6:23 PM PDT July 1, 2021
Updated: 6:53 PM PDT July 1, 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. — When the pandemic closed gyms, grounded most air travel and brought vacations to a screeching halt, a lot of people turned to the outdoors for an escape.
Things like new bike sales and visitations to parks soared.
Area manager for the five state parks in the Inland Northwest Diana Dupuis has noticed a trend in park visits since the pandemic started.
”I think that some people would think that there would be maybe a downtick after things started to open after COVID, but we haven’t seen that. We’ve seen the uses continuing to increase," Dupuis said.

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