2,000,000 visitors.

Joshua Tree National Park reached that number this week, increasing its annual tourist draw by 4 percent over 2014.

“We are no longer a fall through spring park,” Park Superintendent David Smith said. “The park is attracting new visitors from around the world and many of them come in the summer, which has traditionally been the slow season for Joshua Tree. That’s no longer the case.”

In 2014, the park set a record with 1.6 million visitors. There were 1.4 million visitors in 2013.

“We are in total agreement with the park,” said Breanne Dusastri, director of marketing for the 29 Palms Inn.

In the hot summer months, visitors from the Los Angeles area and elsewhere in California drop off, but their ranks are replaced by visitors from Germany, England and France, she said.

Some of them like to experience that desert heat, she said.

Julia Genatossio, who nearly three years ago started working the front desk at the 29 Palms Inn, said when she was hired they told her “to bring a book” during the summer months.

“I haven’t seen the slowdown,” she said.

And 2016 is very likely to be another record, Smith said.

As next year will be the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, more Americans will be traveling to national parks during vacations and other off-work times, Smith said.

And Joshua Tree National Park is “an accessible park for all Southern Californians,” he said in a telephone interview.

And it’s one that caters for all levels of outdoor explorers, from beginning rock climbers to advanced, from vehicle and tent campers to multi day back packers.

And it’s an easy place for those who just want to stay in their vehicles and see stunning desert scapes along paved roads, or on back country roads accessible only with four-wheel drive he said.

“This is a place where you can get away from the cell phones, Twitter and the Internet, “ he said.

Although Joshua Tree National Park doesn’t do promotional funding, increasingly the desert park, which is the nation’s 15th largest, is the subject of travel articles and the site of advertising campaigns for everything from autos to fashion wear, Smith said.

All those things help bring in more visitors, Smith said.

A couple from Inglewood, and their friends visiting from Denmark, pushed the park over the 2 million mark on Monday, according to park officials.