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How to get visitor numbers out of what you already have.

Four plain guides for anyone who runs a visitor center, museum, park, trail or historic site. Each one shows the method by hand, with a spreadsheet, so it is useful whether or not you ever use Public Lands Log.

Visitor numbers for grants How to get visitor numbers for a grant application Where the numbers are at a small site, how to count them in a spreadsheet, what not to add together, and how to present them to a funder.
Digitize guest books How to digitize old guest books and sign-in sheets Photograph the pages so they stay readable, type them into the right spreadsheet columns, handle messy handwriting, and keep the originals safe.
Trail counter reports How to report trail counter data What a counter really counts, how to clean and check the numbers, why counter passes and register sign-ins stay apart, and a report table you can copy.
Where visitors come from How to show where your visitors come from Collect hometowns, clean them up in a spreadsheet, sort them into local and out of town, and map them without showing anyone's name.

Looking for your kind of place instead? See the use cases: trailhead registers, front desks, museum archives, park departments and more.