Yellowstone tops 3 million visitors in '08

Yellowstone tops 3 million visitors in '08

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Story Published: Jan 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM PST

Story Updated: Jan 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM PST

By Associated Press

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) - The number of people visiting Yellowstone National Park topped the 3 million mark in 2008.

The 3,066,579 who visited the world's first national park was down 2.7 percent from the record 3,151,343 visitors in 2007. The 2008 total is the sixth highest visitation year in the park's history.

For the month of December, a total of 16,352 people visited Yellowstone, down almost 20 percent from December 2007.

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