where visitors come from

A visitor center in Omaha, Nebraska

A live example: real numbers from one site that uses Public Lands Log, shown without its name.

recorded visitors with a hometown

Counts people who signed a guest book or checked in, not everyone who visited.

Lobby screen

By state

Recorded visitors with a hometown, by US state or territory, most first
State	Recorded visitors	Share of the map

Recorded visitors with a hometown outside the United States, by country, most first
Country	Recorded visitors	Share of the map

About these numbers

Recorded visitors are people who signed a guest book or checked in with a QR code. They are not a count of everyone who visited.
Guest-book entries are read from photos and scans of the guest-book pages.
Pins and Heat group hometowns into areas about 11 km (7 miles) across and leave out any area with fewer than 5 recorded visitors, so no one's home can be pinpointed. A hometown known only by its state or country is drawn at the middle of it.
No names are shown or shared.