How Investors & Quant Researchers Use Leisure Facilities Data

Honesty first about fit: our tagging rates exactly 1 of the 16 primary records as relevant to Investors & Quant Researchers - the US National Park Service API, with the stated use case "occasionally gauge outdoor-tourism exposure through park-level facility and alert data." That leaves leisure facilities tied with electric utilities, homefurnishing retail, textiles and wireless telecom at the bottom of the 153 tagged industries, well short of the bar met by 109 of 153 industries that qualify for their own investor persona page. Precious metals & minerals anchors the other end with 22 strongly relevant datasets. Treat this slice as supporting cast: it strengthens models built elsewhere, it does not carry them.

For market-sizing denominators and footprint screens, three audit-grade inventories do the work.

OS Open Greenspace (quality 9) generalises publicly accessible greenspace across Great Britain - 165,978 GreenspaceSite polygons and 355,705 typed AccessPoints in the April 2026 release, refreshed every six months in April and October as GML, Esri Shapefile, GeoPackage or vector tiles in 34-76 MB zips. Site-plus-entry geometry is what makes catchment arithmetic possible rather than aspirational.

Global coverage comes from OpenStreetMap Key:leisure - roughly 100 documented tag values across millions of nodes and ways - queried live through the Overpass API with each response embedding a timestamp_osm_base that proves the currency of your extract. NYC Open Data's Recreation Catalog adds a municipal read: the Parks Properties dataset alone carries thousands of property records with polygon geometry, and multi-year outdoor pool and beach attendance series sit alongside AMPS work orders. data.gov.uk's National Data Library indexes 4,540 datasets for UK local-authority granularity when a thesis needs council-level splits.

Recreation Information Database (RIDB) / Recreation.gov extends coverage to federal lands beyond the NPS - tens of thousands of facilities across hundreds of recreation areas organised in a RecArea > Facility > Campsite hierarchy with GeoJSON geometry. Per-record LastUpdatedDate supports incremental syncs, full JSON and CSV export ZIPs replace pagination when you want the whole base, and the documented interface allows 50 requests per second with 50-record pages.

Four federal series cover the demand side, all free.

The BEA Outdoor Recreation Satellite Account (ORSA) - National & State is the sector-size anchor: the March 2026 release puts 2024 outdoor recreation value added at $696.7 billion, 2.4% of current-dollar GDP, with state shares running from Hawaii's 6.1% down to DC's 1.0% across 2012-2024 and activity breaks from boating, fishing and RVing to camping, hiking/climbing and bicycling. Tables arrive as public-domain XLSX (ores0326-VA-Activity and siblings), with iTable ReqID=70 serving state series; the next release lands in Fall 2026. Thirteen annual observations suit cross-state panels, not cycle statistics.

U.S. Census Foreign Trade - U.S. Trade in Goods by Country (HS 9503/9506) covers sourcing and tariff exposure for sporting-goods and toy importers: monthly exports, imports and balances per partner across roughly 100-plus partner pages, one country.xlsx bulk file observed at 1.9 MB (advertised 5 MB), and commodity-level HS detail through USA Trade Online.

These four migrating records - ORSA, the Census trade file, the PCE deflator and IRMA visitation - also anchor the adjacent leisure products data for investors & quants pairing, which does clear the persona gate with four qualifying records.

Ranked by fit to investor and quant workflows first - history depth, machine-readable access, revision discipline - then by Datadory quality score, as of August 2026. Every row is free; the top five carry the demand side, the rest carry the supply side.

Because this industry does not qualify for a dedicated investor persona page, the nearest equivalent is leisure products data for investors & quants, which profiles the four records that migrate between the two slices; the all investors-quants resources hub compares all 109 qualifying industries for this persona.