ASSOCIATED PRESS • November 11, 2021
Maine is home to 48 state parks and historic sites, and attendance and camping at the parks have soared during the coronavirus pandemic. Preliminary state figures showed Maine state camp ground attendance set a record for the second straight year, the Portland Press Herald reported. The state’s 12 state park campgrounds experienced an 8 percent increase in visitors from 2019 to 2020, when campers set a record of more than 270,000. This year, the number grew to about 315,000.