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I thought Smoky Mountain has no entrance fee, so how are they counting individuals accurately? Yosemite is popular and began to use mandatory busses. That seem
by landemva 3y ago
I thought Smoky Mountain has no entrance fee, so how are they counting individuals accurately?
Yosemite is popular and began to use mandatory busses. That seems reasonable, though unrelated to the topic of junk website fees.
- solardev 3y agoI didn't know that, and that's a great question! Apparently they count cars and multiply it by some # of passengers per car. The methodology was recently updated:https://smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/33883-counting-cars-smokies-updates-decades-old-visitation-estimator https://smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/33883-counting-c... Buses are one step, but not always enough. Zion for example has mandatory bussing but they still need to do permits for Angel's Landing (if I remember right) and lotteries for the Narrows, especially for the few backpacking campsites in there.