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Number of outdoor recreation properties operated by the Wisconsin Bureau of Parks and Recreation (otherwise known as the Wisconsin State Park System).

8,200

The number of jobs revolving around the Wisconsin State Park System.

965,517

The number of visitors to Door County’s six state parks from a total annual of 14 million visitors to all 69 state parks (or 14.5 percent of the total number of visitors).

$37.7 million

The amount of wages generated by non-local visitors to the state parks in the Upper Lake Michigan Coastal Region which includes Door County, along with Brown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette and Oconto counties.

$350 million

The amount of income for residents resulting from visitors to the Wisconsin State Park System.

$1 billion

Annual expenditures by visitors to the Wisconsin State Park System.

Source: Economic Impacts of the Wisconsin State Park System: Connections to Gateway Communities by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Parks and Recreation and the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Urban and Regional Planning