U.S. national parks set an attendance record last year

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By <a class="author-link"…Jan 28, 2016, 4:15 pm289 pts
The National Park Service announced yesterday that 305 million people visited the United States’ national parks in 2015. That beats the previous record, set in 2014, of 292.8 million visitors. "The increasing popularity of our national parks comes as we are actively reaching out to new audiences and inviting…

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