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Show Park Visits Up in Local Vicinity Visitation to Arches National Nat-ional Monument was doubled doub-led this month over last year's January figures. ' According to the official National Park release this week there were 1,890 visitors visi-tors to the monument. Last year there were 945, putting this year's figure at 100 per cent more than last. Visitation at Island in the Sky was down by 42 per cent in January as compared compar-ed to the previous year.' In January of 19G8 visitors to the Island totaled 45, but this year only 26 braved the desert snow. A 161 per cent increase of visitation to the Needles occurred oc-curred last month. In January Jan-uary of 1968, 18 visitors made it to that remote section sec-tion of the Canyonlands National Na-tional Park. This past month showed a record of 47 visitors. visi-tors. Natural Bridges visitation is also up by 33 per cent over ov-er last year's figure. 12 were recorded for 1968 and 16 for this anuary. |