Fla. state parks, trails welcomed 24.9 million visitors in 2011

(Aug. 10, 2012) -- Nearly 25 million people visited state park and trail properties in fiscal 2011, according to attendance figures recently compiled by the Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Park Service. State parks received about 700,000 more visitors in the last year than in the previous year, totaling more than 21.1 million visitors.