Show YEARS TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN UTAH PARKS BIGGEST EVER cedar breaks break attracts more than other national monuments in section I 1 creaking all previous reci irti di travel during the year closed on september 30 1911 19 11 1 l brought visitors Is 0 fryu driven niti national I 1 park at ar il il sill iol v to zion ion national park during every month of 0 the current year yea r re reg istra ions exceeded figures of corresponding months of the year and all time monthly r records boru weye also established in hotl boil patis the heavy vil visitation tation Is ii attributed primarily to tho hu declaration by Secre secretary of the interior harold L ickes of 0 1931 as national part year other contributing facto leing being the mild winter ehica made preseason pre season travel unusually heavy and by recent improvements in highways bryco bryce canyon park the preseason pre season visitation from october to april by ferons october to april by persons cent over the corresponding period of the previous year the visitors registered during the month of 01 july established an all time monthly record the total of 51 visitors was an increase of or per cent over the registered in the 1933 year and exceeded by nearly the previous yearly record of established in 1931 visitors were registered from every state the district of 0 columbia hawaii ant and 16 foreign countries for the first time utah was depoi depo rd ed as leader 18 visitors being registered from california and 17 from utah third place was taken by arizona with 1311 visitors 0 of the states slates euit east of the mississippi p I 1 illinois led with 1241 representative zion park the visitors registered re during july 1934 created a new all time monthly record exceeding by more than 1000 the previous record held by july 1930 when large larce attendance was brought in by dedication of tile the famous zion tunnel the total of visitors lors tor for the year was tit an increase of or r per cent over the total for 1933 and or per cent over the previous record year of 1931 utah led with california being second with and arizone arizona third with 2757 national monuments the record of travel to the three national monuments in their first year ot of administration under the office of the superintendent of zion and bryce canyon national parks is as follows cedar freaks national monument utah pos gos cave national monument utah lehman caves national monument nevada 1968 |