Joshua Tree National Park visitation tops 3 million in 2022

The National Park Service 2022 Visitation Report released February 27th shows visitation to Joshua Tree National Park reached over 3 million visitors with 3,058,294 visitors, the National Park Service overall received 312 million recreation visits.

This is the second year in a row our park first went over 3 million, in 2021 park visitation peaked at 3,064,400 visitors, twice the park’s visitation in 2014. 

Visitation to Joshua Tree National Park is among the fastest-growing in the national park system.

The new report shows Joshua Tree was the 8th most visited National Park in 2022.

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Gary Daigneault
Gary Daigneault has been a broadcast journalist for 45 years with awards and citations from the Associated Press, National Association of Broadcasters, Radio-Television News Association, Radio Inc. Magazine, five “Golden Mic” and four “Mark Twain” awards. In 2010 he was inducted into the Associated Press Hall of Fame. Daigneault taught Broadcasting for 27 years. He is President of Theatre 29, six term Past-President of Rotary Clubs, Past-President of Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree Chambers of Commerce and chaired the Joshua Tree National Park Commission. Gary and wife Cindy live in Twentynine Palms since 1979. They have two children and five grandchildren.