PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 23, 2021
For the second straight year, Maine state parks attracted a record numbers of visitors in 2021. Through November, Maine’s 42 state parks and historic sites had more than 3.2 million visitors, according to an email from Jim Britt, spokesman for the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. That compares to an attendance of 3.1 million visitors for all of 2020 – the previous annual record. At the end of the camping season this year, the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry reported that state park campgrounds set an attendance record in 2021 with 315,000 campers – up 12 percent from 2020.