Joshua Tree NP VSP Visitor Study
April 3–9, 2004
Importance of selected park features/qualities
Visitor groups were asked to rate the importance of selected Joshua Tree NP’s features/qualities. Table 8 summarizes visitor group ratings for each feature/quality and Figure 91 show the combined “very important” and “extremely important” ratings.
Features/qualities that received the highest “extremely important” and “very important” ratings included clean air (94%) and natural quiet/sounds of nature (93%). The features/qualities that received the highest “not important” rating were access to historical/cultural sites (7%) and access to rock formations (6%).
| Table 8: Importance ratings for selected park features/qualities N=number of visitor groups who rated each feature/quality; percentages may not equal 100 due to rounding. | |||||||
| Feature/quality | N | Rating (%) | |||||
| Extremely important |
Very important |
Moderately important |
Somewhat important |
Not important |
Don’t know | ||
| Views without development |
512 | 64 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Natural quiet/ sounds of nature |
515 | 70 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | <1 |
| Solitude | 510 | 55 | 25 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Clean air | 511 | 46 | 23 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
| Access to historical/ cultural sites |
508 | 32 | 28 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 2 |
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