The number of visitors at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore last year topped 1.5 million people for the ninth-straight year.
Year-end visitor tallies became public late last week.
Visitation in 2023 was 1,598,248, up 6.5% over the previous year total of 1,501,117, according to Scott Tucker, Lakeshore superintendent.
The announcement coincided with a recent CNN story which listed the…