Hundreds of thousands of people reportedly visited Letcher County last year according to a study.
At last month’s Letcher County Fiscal Court meeting, the Executive Director of the Pine Mountain Partnership gave the Court a copy of the study done by the county Tourism and Convention Commission showing more than 317,000 unique visitors to Letcher County for a total of nearly 3 million visits in 2024.
The Mountain Eagle reports the data came from software that does anonymous collection of cell phone locations.
The report indicates most people visiting Letcher County come from Wise County, typically eight to nine times a year, and they stay for about 4 hours and then go home.
The 317,000 is down from 2022 and 2023 but up from 2021.