2022 Record Year for Attendance at State Parks; Watkins Glen, Keuka Lake Parks See Visitor Totals Drop

2022 was a record year for attendance at New York State Parks.  Annual attendance at state parks, historic sites, campgrounds, and trails operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation saw a record 79.5-MILLION visits last year, an increase of more than one million compared to 2021.

For 2022, Watkins Glen State Park’s attendance was 995,377 down from 1,003,280 in 2021, and Keuka Lake State Park also saw its attendance drop from 133,933 in 2021 to 122,650. Robert H. Treman State Park in Ithaca recorded an attendance of 362,301 last year, up from 358,536 in 2021.

The full list of attendance numbers can be seen below:

New York State Park attendance has been steadily climbing for more than a decade, rising nearly 43 percent since 2008. Among the most-visited State Parks in 2022 were Niagara Falls State Park (9.4 million visits), Jones Beach State Park (8.5 million visits), Robert Moses State Park (3.8 million visits), Saratoga Spa (3.5 million visits), Sunken Meadow State Park (3.1 million visits) Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park (3 million visits) and Bear Mountain State Park (2.4 million visits).