Since opening to the public exactly 2 years ago, the #911Memorial has welcomed nearly 10 million visitors. #Thankyouforvisiting #Honor911

— 9/11 Memorial (@Sept11Memorial) September 12, 2013

5 million visitors a year. That’s a huge number that exceeds the numbers visiting all but a handful of national parks and NPS units. It exceeds the number of visitors to the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, etc.

npca.org

And I stand by my call for the site to be transferred to NPS control and winding down the memorial foundation, which claims it needs $60m to operate annually, and which has been looking at imposing user fees to access the site and museum. But Congress wont do anything on this front.

Heck, they can’t even be bothered to fund the State Department’s $2.2 billion plan to improve security at its diplomatic facilities, so they wont do anything with this either.