NEWS CENTER MAINE • August 30, 2023
A new report from the National Park Service has estimated that tourism from Acadia National Park brought nearly $480 million to the local Maine economy in 2022. The park saw 3.97 million visits in 2022, which provided $479 million in visitor spending, according to the report. That spending supported around 6,700 jobs in the area and had a cumulative benefit of $691 million. The report shows $23.9 billion of direct spending by nearly 312 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park. This spending supported 378,400 jobs nationally; 314,600 of those jobs are found in these gateway communities. The cumulative benefit to the U.S. economy was $50.3 billion.