2025 Economic Contributions & Impacts of Arizona State Parks

Arizona State Parks and Trails offers a system of recreation, historic, conservation parks, and state natural areas for public use. The parks host a variety of amenities such as trails, camping facilities, cabins, park stores, and visitor centers. Parks engage in regular programming like tours and ranger-led activities, but also special events. Parks are located throughout the state, in all but 2 of Arizona’s 15 counties. These parks attract local visitors, but also non-local visitors from in-state, out-of-state, and internationally. Non-local visitation supports regional outdoor recreation and tourism economies in the form of jobs, income, and tax revenues. This is especially important in rural areas of the state. This report quantifies the importance of Arizona State Parks to regional economies by estimating the economic contributions and impacts of state park visitor spending. This includes a statewide economic contribution estimate for total visitor spending as well as individual county-level economic impacts of non-local visitor spending for the year 2025.