30, the parks generated about $48.7 million in camping and lodging revenue - a $9.1 million increase over pre-pandemic levels. In the current fiscal year that ends Sept. Most of Michigan State Parks’ operating revenue comes from recreation passports and camping reservations. Instead, attendance shot up 35 percent last year - a trend echoed at other local parks throughout the state.īut though many parks collect user fees, higher attendance hasn’t resulted in a windfall. “We had a goal of raising that decline by 1 percent,” McMillan said. At southeast Michigan’s Huron-Clinton Metroparks, for example, annual attendance figures had been sliding downhill for years before COVID-19 hit, Director Amy McMillan said. The trend is continuing this year, Olson said. Visitation at state parks and recreation areas spiked 30 percent last year, to 35 million people, as COVID fears and travel restrictions pushed people to spend more time outdoors. Parks officials took their sales pitch on the road to the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island this week, appearing at a session where they celebrated the pandemic-driven parks renaissance and discussed the need to ensure Michigan’s parks can serve a crush of new visitors.
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