Recreation Trip Characteristics

Trip characteristics include everything beyond the individual visitor's personal characteristics and thought / cognitive processes. Trip characteristics exclude the professional / management side of things. This focus area is all about the user's group and descriptors of the actual trip.

Distribution of Use and Users Across Space and Time

Class discussion on spatial and temporal distributions of use. Daily, weekly, annual, and decadal time scales. Site, unit, park-wide, and regional spatial scales.