Visiting a national park is good for our health and wellbeing, new research has found.

 The research, reported in The Conversation, puts a dollar value on the health benefits of visits to national parks within reach of the city of Adelaide and estimates every visit saves the health budget almost $100.

 Scaled up across the country, this means the 22 million day trips to national parks in 2019 could shave more than $2.1 billion off the nation’s health bill every year. This estimate assumes visits and benefits are similar across the country. 

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