Blog post barryclark#6

_drafts/2019-7-10-top-ten-national-parks.md

@@ -4,3 +4,9 @@ title:  The "top ten" national parks.
 date: 10-7-2019
 tags: national-park-service
 ---
+Let's take a look at the top ten parks in terms of visits. The parks are in order of total visits in 2018 are listed in the table below.
+{% include 20190710_visit_parks_sorted_by_visits_top_10_national_parks.html %}
+These parks account for 47,935,147 of the total national park visits in 2018, which is 56% of all visits. Over half of visits to the 61 national parks are to these 10 parks! The top 10 parks contain 7,413,557 acres which is 14% of the total acreage of the national parks.
+
+Are visits to these top ten parks growing faster than to the national park system as a whole? Let's take a look.
+![Plot image]({{ site.baseurl }}/assets/20190710_visit_park_visits_vs_year_highest_10_national_parks.png)

_includes/20190710_visit_parks_sorted_by_visits_top_10_national_parks.html

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+<table border="1" class="dataframe table-park-list">
+  <thead>
+    <tr style="text-align: left;">
+      <th></th>
+      <th>Park Name</th>
+      <th>Visits in 2018</th>
+    </tr>
+  </thead>
+  <tbody>
+    <tr>
+      <th>1</th>
+      <td>Great Smoky Mountains National Park</td>
+      <td>11,421,200</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>2</th>
+      <td>Grand Canyon National Park</td>
+      <td>6,380,495</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>3</th>
+      <td>Rocky Mountain National Park</td>
+      <td>4,590,493</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>4</th>
+      <td>Zion National Park</td>
+      <td>4,320,033</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>5</th>
+      <td>Yellowstone National Park</td>
+      <td>4,115,000</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>6</th>
+      <td>Yosemite National Park</td>
+      <td>4,009,436</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>7</th>
+      <td>Acadia National Park</td>
+      <td>3,537,575</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>8</th>
+      <td>Grand Teton National Park</td>
+      <td>3,491,151</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>9</th>
+      <td>Olympic National Park</td>
+      <td>3,104,455</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+      <th>10</th>
+      <td>Glacier National Park</td>
+      <td>2,965,309</td>
+    </tr>
+  </tbody>
+</table>