Great Smoky Mountains National Park Officials say a record of 11,338,894 people visited the park in 2017. That number is a slight increase of 0.2% over the year before. There were 11,312,786 visitors in 2016. The highest visitor numbers were recorded in July, followed by October and July. The park credited the record to its largest special event in park history: the Great American Total Solar Eclipse.

“Over 15,600 people attended eclipse events offered at Cades Cove, Clingmans Dome, Oconaluftee Visitor Center, and Sugarlands Visitor Center,” the park said in a press release. According to the GSMNP, over 47,000 visitors entered the park from the four main entrances to view the eclipse on Aug. 21, marking a 64% increase in visitation for that day over 2016.

According to the release, visitors spent nearly 400,000 nights camping in the park and while that’s slightly down from 2016, it’s above the 5-year average.