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December 15, 2020
The park service says they’ve set a record for the most number of visitors ever.
The new visitation figures show they hit 1.6 million visitors this year.
That beats the previous record by more than 10,000 people and the year isn’t even over yet.
The superintendent says COVID-19 has encouraged people to stay close to home and enjoy the great outdoors.
“We had the busiest July ever, the busiest August ever, the busiest November ever, but the asterisk there is we didn’t have as many face-to-face visitor interactions,” said Scott Tucker, Superintendent of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.