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The majority of visitors in respondent groups (71%) were adults. The average group contained 2.8 adults.
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53% of the groups surveyed contained children. The average number of children in groups with children was 2.2.
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The majority of survey respondents (96%) reside in the United States.
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Visitor groups from 42 states participated in the surveys. Over half of the respondent groups (55%) were from 7 states: Tennessee, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, or Alabama.
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50% of all survey respondents live within 300 miles (“as the crow flies” distance between the center of the park and each respondent’s zip code). Map
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14% of Exit Survey respondents live within 50 miles (versus 5% of other survey respondents) and 25% live within 100 miles (versus 10% of other survey respondents).
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Respondents who live close to the park were more likely to live in rural or semi-rural communities. Respondents from further away were more likely to live in suburban or urban communities.
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Almost half (48%) of Not-in-Cades Cove respondents were between 30 and 60 years old. 12% were seniors, 11% were between 18 and 29 years old and 29% were under 18 years old.
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Respondents were generally well-educated. 49% reported they had a college degree, and a third of these had graduate degrees.
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About two thirds of respondents said they had visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park before and most repeat visitors had been to the park more than once.
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Over 40% of survey respondents had visited Cades Cove before. Among repeat visitors, 36% had visited within the past year.
