Saguaro National Park will survey visitors after posting its busiest year on record. The goal is to find out how many visitors are locals and how many are from out of town, as well as what other amenities they'd like…
Henry Brean Visitation at Saguaro National Park hit another record high in 2021, and officials there are trying to figure out where all the people are coming from.
Starting in mid-March, a team of park staff members and volunteers will fan out to interview hikers and sightseers about their experiences as part of the first comprehensive visitor use study at Saguaro since 2004. Visitors also might see staff members posted at trailheads and elsewhere to count people by hand in an effort to double-check the accuracy of the electronic counters and mathematical formulas the park uses to calculate visitation.
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Several east-side improvements are now in the design stage, including expanded parking at the Broadway and Douglas Spring trailheads. The record results came on the heels of a sharp drop in 2020, when visitation fell to 762,226, its lowest level since 2015. Some adjustments have since been made to the way the park tallies visitation to try to capture more people in more places.
Still, Inkster said, she is glad to hear about the park service’s plans to expand the undersized trailhead parking lots at the east end of Speedway and Broadway. Now the virus appears to be fueling the comeback in visitation that began last year at Saguaro and elsewhere, Fisher said.
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