Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Commission on State Parks and Recreation Areas: Report to the 1989 General Assembly of North Carolina
Last year eight million visitors to North Carolina's State parks, natural areas, and recreation areas found time to create many such memories. In fact, the visitor count to North Carolina's State Park System now exceeds the State's population.
North Carolina was the first state in the southeast to create a state parks system. Today the North Carolina Parks and Recreation System covers fifty-three management units parks, rivers, trails, lakes, and recreation areas. The Parks System includes 'acres of land, water, and facilities conservatively valued at $350 million.
North Carolina looks differently now than it did in 1915, when the Parks System was established. Our population is aging, yet it is more urban, cosmopolitan, and technological. People are recreating differently; the weekend trip has replaced the annual week of vacation. Visitors to North Carolina parks increased one million in one year. These changeovers will impact significantly on our parks and recreation areas.
Previously, there have been four legislatively-mandated studies of State Parks. The General Assembly again established in 1987 a Study Commission on State Parks and Recreation Areas. The Commission was authorized to identify the needs of State Parks and Recreation Areas, to review and formulate legislation, to collect and evaluate reports and recommendations, and to study any other pertinent issues. The Commission. Was cochaired by Senator Henson P. Barnes and Representative Narvel Jim Crawford.
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