The most popular national park destinations for fall include the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the Southeast U.S. The Blue Ridge Parkway got 1.8 million visitors last month, and 1.9 million visitors in October 2014, while the Smokies saw 1.3 million visitors in October 2014 and a million last month.
Grand Canyon saw nearly 411,000 visitors in October 2014 and more than 480,000 in September.
Other Western parks that registered big numbers were Yellowstone, with 680,000 visitors last month and 195,000 in October 2014; Yosemite, with 471,000 visitors in September and nearly 355,000 October 2014; and Zion with 394,000 in September and 304,000 in October 2014.
