More than three million dollars coming from taxpayers' pockets last year for search and rescue operations at national parks.

The National Park Service says the majority spent for rescues at the Grand Canyon in Arizona and Yosemite National Park in California.

Almost three thousand search and rescue operations occurring in 2017.

Grand Canyon operations accounting for ten percent of search and rescues nationwide, with eight percent coming from Yosemite.

Park Service employees spending seventy-one thousand hours working these incidents.