, 1926-10-20

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torcycles, 1874; visitors on horse
back and afoot, ais, and pre-sea-
son visitors, unclassifed, 3,OS6-
total, 1S7,S07.
h total number OF rail visitors
was 40 $50. as compared with A.
1856 last year, showing a decrease
of 1896; this was due to the act
that very few conventions were held
this year on the pacific coast or in
the lnter-mountain states. Regular
or non-convention rail travel was
heavier than usual.
\ hundred and fourty-four thou
sand, seven hundred and twenty-nine
auto visitors toured the park in a.
472 cars, as compared with 1OS,242
auto visitors travelling in 1914
cars last year.
Travel by Park Gateways
h Cody or eastern gateway
was the most popular entrance for
auto visitors; 51,619 persons trav-
cling in 1876 cars were admitted
at this entrance during the season,
as compared with 1888 visitors
travelling in 1919 cars admitted
at the West Yellowstone or western
gateway, 29,322 visitors travelling
in 9,314 cars admitted at the Gar
diner or northern gateway, and
1880 visitors travelling in 1853
cars admitted at the Snake River
or southern gateway.
West Yellowstone was the most
patronized rail entrance, with a
! total Af 1 o nE1 ,;,;41-
pared with 14,127 at the Gardiner
gateway, 1911 at the Cody or
eastern gateway, and 271 at the
Lander or southern gateway. The
west entrance rail total of 1881
includes S13 visitors who journeyed
to Three Forks, Montana, via the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad and from Three Forks to
West Yellowstone, Montana (the
west entrance to the park on the
buses of the Yellowstone Park
Transportation company. This new
route to the park was opened on
August 1, 1926.
The automobile travel totals in
clude 1884 cars and 1868 visitors
who entered the park more than
once during the season.
Classification by States
Park visitors this season were
registered from every state in the
union, Alaska, PHILIPPINE Islands,
Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, Canal
Zone and % foreign countries, in
GLIDING England and six other
countries of the British Empire.
The Crown Prince and Crown
Princess of Sweden are included
in the list of distinguished foreign
visitors.
Illinois leads the list of states as
classified by rail travel, with a
total of 1924 visitors; New York is
second, with a total of 3,8O5; Ohio
third, with 2,942; and Pennsylvania
is fourth with a total of 1852. APP
proXimately 40 per cent of all rail
travel came from the states of Il
linois, New York, Ohio, PennsyI-
vania and California.
Automobile travel by states
shows the usual substantial lead by
Montana with a total of 16,451 Wis
itors, travelling in 4,S13 cars; Idaho
ranks second with 1906 visitors
in 3,199 cars; California is third
with 1877 visitors in 4,269 cars
and Utah is fourth with $3.50 Wis
itors in 2,45S cars. California is
fifth in rail travel with a total of
2,188, as compared with 2,O58 last
year and 1888 during the tourist
season of 1924.
Other Interesting Travel Facts
The record entrance travel in
Yellowstone park for a single day
occurred on July 4th, with a total
of 3,102 visitors; the date of the
previous high record was August
7, 1923, with a total of 1859. The
record for 1924 was 1850 on July
22nd and the record for 1925 was
$500 on July 21st.
The daily travel totals on six
days of the 1926 season exceeded
the previous travel record of Au-
gust Z, 1928. Daily entrance in
excess of 1000 occurred on SO days
of the season recently closed, as
compared with 81 days during the
season of 1926 and IT days during
the season of 1924,
Approximately $4,000 automo-
bile tourists camped out in the var
ious public camping grounds this
season.