(NEXSTAR) — The National Park Service served a record number of visits in 2024, and while that may seem like an amazing feat, your favorite park may not talk about it too much.

Traditionally, individual parks and the National Park Service have touted how successful the previous year was. That has been especially true since a spike in attendance during the COVID pandemic.

Last year was extra special, data shows, with more than 331.8 million visits reported across National Park Service sites. That surpasses the previous record of 330.9 million set in 2016.

While you can find the data on the NPS website, the agency and its parks will likely not be sharing much of the good news.

Park staff told not to proactively share data

A National Park Service memo said the agency will not proactively release information regarding the numbers, according to The New York Times. Parks have been instructed not to “issue a press release or other proactive communications, including social media posts, unless that is its “standard process,” the memo continued, per reporting from SFGate.

That’s a break from years past when parks would proudly share how much attendance they’ve attracted.

It also comes as the Trump administration has fired roughly 1,000 National Park Service employees and more than 700........

© The Hill