Record attendance leads to changes at Devil`s Lake State Park


Record attendance leads to changes at Devil`s Lake State Park


Devil’s Lake State Park is on pace to set record attendance totals this year.

Visitation to Wisconsin’s most popular state park has increased by nearly 50 percent since 2010, going from 1.7 million annual visitors at the time to 2.6 million in 2016, according to estimates from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Steve Schmelzer, the park’s superintendent, said he expects the ascent to continue in 2017.

“We’re right in the neighborhood of 2.8 million (visitors) right now,” Schmelzer said. “Last year through October it was 2.6 million visitors, so we’re a couple hundred thousand visitors up.”

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Ken Notes: ECONOMIC IMPACT. Tourism is money, green spendable wonderful money. It comes from other areas and stays in Wisconsin. It creates jobs, funds good land management, and shows Wisconsin in it`s very best light. We need more parks, public private partnerships, year round tourism. It is good for us trust me... trust get it???

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