A new National Park Service report released this week shows that more than 2,500,000 visitors in 2010 spent $186,282,000 in Acadia National Park and in communities near the park, and that spending supported 3,189 jobs in the local area.
“The people and the business owners in communities near national parks have always known their economic value,” Acadia Superintendent Sheridan Steele said in a press release Feb. …