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Show (Ciiipuliiiis Parkway Sen. Frank E. Moss, D-Ut- b, Wednesday renewed his ; roposal to the U.S. Senate ' ) construct a parkway along ie rimlands of the scenic lolorado river canyon con- ecting Canyonlands National Nation-al 1 Park with Glen Canyon I) )am. .-. One proposed route would ., ravel West of the boundaries boundar-ies of Glen Canyon Dam L nd Canyonlands National 'ark, cdoss the Green river, itilize the proposed Canyon- ands National Park ap- iroach to the northern sec- ion of the Park, down Long V Canyon, up the prize win- ling Potash road, to the ft' Colorado river banks, thru loab. The parkway from hat point would follow the Colorado diver banks thru )ewey, Glade Park, and erminate on U-70 near 3rand Junction. P Feeder roads would coa-I coa-I lect the Parkway with var-1 var-1 ous points along the way, V it Cisco, Crescent Junction, f Sreen River, the Hole in f :he Rock area, etc. All pro- posed routes for the park- way wouldl eventually blend ;nto U-95 near Page, Ari-f Ari-f iona. 1 The feasibility of such a road has been under study J for the past year by officials of the National Park Service, Ser-vice, Bureau of Land Management, Man-agement, Bureau -of Public Roads, Utah State Road Department De-partment heads, county rep-representatives, rep-representatives, and other agencies directly involved with the lands crossed. The proposed route, and alternate routes, have been flown, and portions surveyed survey-ed by jeep parties. Bates E. Wilson, of Moab, Superintendent Super-intendent of Canyonlands National Park, has accompanied accompa-nied several survey groups into the area nd is perhaps more familiar with the lands involved than anyone. He is enthusiastic about an eventual even-tual Parkway, but points out it will entail long-term planning, plan-ning, surveying, and costly construction. (Mr. Wilson emphasized that at the present time the National Park Service was serving in an advisory capacity capa-city in chadting routes for the parkway. The ultimate goal, he said, is to locate a road that will take advantage ad-vantage cf tihe magnificent scenery "but not clobber it." No definite route is chartered, char-tered, although numerous scouting trips have been made. Some drafts of portions por-tions of a feasible route have been made; other por- tions of the proposed parkway park-way are not even on paper as yet. The scenic area which such a parkway would open is of unbelievable scope. Senator Moss described it to the U. S. Senate as "perhaps the world's most scenic area." A portion of magnificent magnif-icent Canyonlands now accessible ac-cessible only hy packhorse, to a limited extent, by four wheel drive vehicles, would be available to the public, and many historical interests inter-ests lie along the route. Routing the Parkway near Mbab is an added incentive incen-tive to potential tourists to travel the 400-mile scenic road. Arohes National Monument, Mon-ument, Dead Horse Point State Park, and other scenic sce-nic attractions widiin a short radius of Moab City would: be a bonus to Canyonlands Can-yonlands and Parkway travelers. trav-elers. A similar bill was introduced! intro-duced! by Sen. Moss in the 89th Congress, but revised and extended this year. The present -bill calls for a highway high-way reaching from the Utah-Arizona Utah-Arizona border near Page, to Grand Junction, Colorado, rather than terminating at Crescent Junction, as it was charted in 1966. Senator Moss proposed the 400-mile highway be constructed con-structed by National Park Service, from funds collected under the Land and Water Conservation Act, which is supported by entrance fees to federal outdoor recreation areas, sales of surplus federal fed-eral real property, and tmo-torboat tmo-torboat fuel taxes. |