I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of days, but kept forgetting. I think it is relevant, especially since FotB Joe D. and I have discussed this in the past.
Spoiler: Surprisingly, the deadliest “park” is…Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which averages 20.88 deaths per year. I say “surprisingly” because I would have figured Grand Canyon or Yosemite. But thinking about it, Lake Mead is mostly water, and there are a lot of ways to die around water.
Grand Canyon National Park comes in second (12.7 deaths per year), Yosemite National Park third (11.1), and Yellowstone ends up in tenth place (4.94 deaths per year).
This is reported in the Mainstream Media, so of course they are mathematically innumerate. The statistic of interest is death per visitor-hour.