Show r j State Park Travel Good Report Shows AiT AT LAKE IARE GUY CITY CITY CITY- Attend ice Attend H nt lit Utah's state perks parks has hal hast t I r exceeded I expectations this ear car II reported Aldin O. O Hay Hay- m Utah Park and Recreation I s director today season With the tourist season draws draw draw- rg to a B close attendance at 1 parks and monuments monuments ments where attendance figures have been kept in past years Is IsI I up as much as 20 per cent eMt A At t new parks where no previous pre pre- IOUS anus record has been established visitors far outnumbered expectations he said This points up once again that the growing population is demanding more and more recreational rec roe facilities which Utah will have to provide Otherwise the public will go elsewhere he said The rho Placer r Monument State Park This Is The Place Monument Monument Monument ment at the mouth of Emigration tion Canyon In Salt Lake City led all aU other state parks In attendance through August with more than visitors said Mr Hayward This is 20 per cent higher this year than It was wasa a year ago Total visits to th the Field House of or Natural History at Vernal Venal near the Dinosaur National Monument also experienced a large increase In visitors Mr Hayward reported with well over visitors for the year ear at the end of August Attendance at the he Old State StateHouse StateHouse Statehouse House State Stat Park at Millard County has had a slight Increase in total attendance for 1962 with visitors numbering more than for the year At three new v state parks parks- parks parks- still In the development stages attendance has been more than anticipated Mr Hayward noted Remarkable has been the visitor and tourist traffic at Dead Horse Point State Park with more than 2000 visitors per month In June July and August the three hottest months j C of the tM year reef tor for that am ate h he Mid I of at tale hM has teen here en f ted of by till mat t I end and M r have hIft been Jt o MId A 1 new wew large lane a and h tor shelter has been installed I i The and remarkable view from Dead Deed Horse Point feint of course attracts and impresses Imp villi visitors tors who rho In turn encourage their friends to visit the park said Mr If Hayward ayward We eX expect Ct that before the year ear I Is over we will have had nearly early visitors to Dead Horse Point State Park said Mr Hayward This is II something something some some- thing we never e expected ed particularly particularly particularly par par- when tourists have to drive over 23 miles mUes of dusty dosty and rough roads He lIe explained ex that the Park Commission was working with the Grand County and San Juan County road departments and the tIN State Highway Department tc te have the road in better shape for next years year's traffic There have been several hundred hundred hun hun- dred v visitors per month during the summer at Dixie State Park near St. St George at the Brigham Young Winter Home State Park Parkin in St. St George and at the Stagecoach Stagecoach Stage Stage- coach Inn State Park at Fairfield Fairfield Fair Fair- field although developments in these parks are far from completed com com- |