diff --git a/EpiAware/src/EpiInference/NUTSampler.jl b/EpiAware/src/EpiInference/NUTSampler.jl
index b7639859b..fc05d72a7 100644
--- a/EpiAware/src/EpiInference/NUTSampler.jl
+++ b/EpiAware/src/EpiInference/NUTSampler.jl
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The `NUTSampler` struct represents using the No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS) to sample
     "The metric type to use for the HMC sampler."
     metricT::M = DiagEuclideanMetric
     "number of adaptation steps"
-    nadapts::Int = 250
+    nadapts::Int = 500
 end
 
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