This is part of my research for a later entry. This is not the final numbers, and they will be adjusted as my research improves. I've rounded up the numbers for simplification. Sports teams like the Utah Jazz are not on the list.
1. Temple Square...about 5 million per year.
2. Utah ski resorts...collective...so far can't find individual data...about 4 million per year. (I don't yet have information on individual ski resorts, which is what I would rather have.)
3. Zion National Park...about 3 million per year.
4. Ashley National Forest, including Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area...about 2.5 million per year. (Shared with Wyoming.)
5. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Lake Powell)...about 2 million per year. (Shared with Arizona)
6. Bryce Canyon National Park...about 1.75 million per year.
7. Lagoon Park...about 1.2 million per year.
8. Arches National Park...about 1 million per year.
9. Capitol Reef National Park...about 750,000 per year.
10. Cedar Breaks National Monument...about 700,000 per year.
11. Canyonlands National Park...about 400,000 per year.
12. Dead Horse Point State Park...about 380,000 per year.
13. Antelope Island State Park...about 380,000 per year.
14. Jordanelle Reservoir...about 357,000 per year.
15. Sand Hollow Reservoir...about 351,000 per year.
16. Strawberry Reservoir...about 350,000 per year.
17. Great Salt Lake Marina and Saltair Beach...about 266,000 per year.
18. Wasatch Mountain State Park...about 260,000 per year.
19. Willard Bay...about 259,000 per year.
20. Snow Canyon State Park...about 255,000 per year.
21. Dinosaur National Monument...about 250,000 per year. (Shared with Colorado).
22. Bear Lake State Park...about 229,000 per year. (This is only the Utah state park. There is also the Idaho State Park and about a half dozen private or municipal sites. I am confident that this represents about half of the visitors to the Bear Lake Valley every year, which would it closer to #11.)
23. Deer Creek Reservoir...about 228,000 per year.
24. Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument...about 200,000 per year.
25. Utah Lake...about 150,000 per year. (State Park only).
Just missing the cut: Goblin Valley, Palisade Lake, Timpanogos Cave, Natural Bridges.
Popular sites that I do not yet have data...Bonneville Salt Flats, Hill Air Force Base Museum, San Rafael Swell, Rio Tinto-Kennecott Mine, the Olympic Park, among others. If you have a link, please pass it on.
Some surprises so far...
Canyonlands National Park...it is not that much farther from Moab that Arches, but it just doesn't get the same love.
I'm surprised that Dinosaur is as popular as it is. But more on that later.
Utah has some great and wonderful state parks, some of the best in the US. The State tourism board needs to market some of our state parks as well as the national parks.
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