In addition to their natural wonders, Nevada’s national parks and public lands such as Great Basin National Park, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Gold Butte National Monument and Avi Kwa Ame National Monument are all a critical part of our state’s outdoor recreation economy.
In Nevada, outdoor recreation accounts for 8.1 billion in value added GDP annually, making the state 10th in the nation.
Visitors come from all over the world to experience the outdoor spaces that make Nevada and the surrounding areas so special. But the recent cuts to the staff and budget at the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior are already having devasting harm to our parks system and are putting our already fragile economy in even greater dange