Like Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks' record visits this year so far, which have caused huge headaches with illegal parking in the former and the grim reality of long entrance lines for the latter , another national park in the West is seeing soaring visitor numbers. Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, which recently hit the news for the allegedly "woke" push to rename one of its iconic peaks , experienced an increase of around 800,000 people between 2013 and 2023, according to National Park Service (NPS) visitor data.

In 2023 alone, the NPS states the park hosted 3,417,106 recreation visits—a substantial 22% increase from 2022. More recently, as of 2024, that figure soared yet again to approximately 3.6 million. The picture is crystal: Grand Teton is becoming more frequen

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