Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (PRNL) and surrounding communities welcomed 925,685 visitors to the park in 2022. This was a decrease from 2021, but showed an upward trend from pre-pandemic numbers of 7.23 percent.

Although the 2022 financial impact to surrounding communities is not available yet, in 2021 visitors to PRNL spent an estimated $64.2 million in local gateway regions while visiting the park. These expenditures supported a total of 773 jobs, $21.1 million in labor income, $36.8 million in value added, and $68.3 million in economic output in local gateway economies surrounding Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore during that year.

Users seeking information on the economic benefits of visitation can find information on visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies using the interactive tool linked below. Users can also view yearby- year trend data. The interactive tool is available at the NPS Social Science Program webpage: https:// www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/ vse.htm For an in-depth look at 2022 and past years visitation statistics for Pictured Rocks NL and other national park sites, go to the National Park Service Visitor Use Statistics website: https://irma.nps.gov/ STATS/