Joshua Tree NP VSP Visitor Study
April 3–9, 2004
Importance of selected services to visitor enjoyment
Visitor groups were asked to rate the importance of selected services to their enjoyment of Joshua Tree NP on this visit. Table 9 summarizes ratings for each service while Figure 92 shows the combined “extremely important” and “very important” ratings. Services that received the highest “extremely important” and “very important” ratings were availability of water (65%), recycling receptacles (64%), and availability of wildland firefighting (61%). Internet portals at visitor center (64%) and availability of phones (41%), were the services that received the highest “not important” rating.
| Table 9: Importance ratings for selected services N=number of visitor groups who rated each feature/quality; percentages may not equal 100 due to rounding. | |||||||
| Service | N | Rating (%) | |||||
| Extremely important |
Very important |
Moderately important |
Somewhat important |
Not important |
Don’t know | ||
| Availability of phones |
517 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 19 | 41 | 4 |
| Law enforcement presence |
516 | 8 | 21 | 35 | 23 | 11 | 2 |
| Availability of emergency medical services |
521 | 22 | 37 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
| Availability of search and rescue |
519 | 24 | 32 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 2 |
| Availability of wildland firefighting |
515 | 28 | 33 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| Availability of water | 519 | 34 | 31 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| Recycling receptacles |
516 | 29 | 35 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 1 |
| Internet portals at visitor center |
516 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 64 | 7 |
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