By Staff The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands is expecting a busy spring at state parks and public lands, after they shattered attendance records in 2020 with more than 3 million visitors to the state-run sites. The Bureau of Parks and Lands, which is part of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, said it anticipates the popularity of its outdoor destinations to continue this spring and urged those who plan to visit to plan ahead or have an alternative plan to avoid crowded parking areas and trailhead bottlenecks. In 2020, the system recorded 3,067,112 visitors to 38 parks and 15 public sites, despite the fact that visitors from outside Maine state were restricted and 10 coastal state parks were closed from late March until June because of crowds.