Public Lands & Outdoor Recreation
Better data for better outdoor spaces.
Visitor Use & Profiles
Estimate visitation and understand who uses public lands, what they do, and how they experience these spaces.
Recreation Planning
We support development and infrastructure with market analysis and data-driven planning.
Economic Impacts
Measure how public lands and outdoor recreation support visitor spending, jobs, income, and local economies.
Gateway Communities
Assess how recreation and tourism affect housing, infrastructure, quality of life, and economic conditions in nearby communities.
OUR SERVICES
How it works.
We tailor each study to the landscape, visitors, available data, and decisions facing land managers and community partners.
1
Define the Questions
Identify the visitor, resource, access, economic, and planning issues the research needs to address.
2
Design the Approach
Select the right combination of surveys, visitor counts, mobile data, economic modeling, and community input.
3
Collect the Data
Quantify the impact of your resort
4
Analyze the Findings
Understand how guests travel to and around your resort
5
Support Planning
Benchmark demand, competition, and positioning
Clients we've worked with.
RRC works with federal, state, and local agencies to understand visitor use and plan for the future of public lands. Our experience includes the National Park Service, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Minnesota DNR, NoCo Places, and Larimer County’s Our Lands, Our Future planning initiative.
Plan for the future with better data.
Whether you need visitor estimates, user surveys, economic impact analysis, or gateway community research, RRC can build a research program around your lands and planning priorities.