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Show February Park Visits Again Record '-Breaking Visitation at the areas comprising com-prising the Canyonlands Park Complex for February again proved to be record breaking with increases in all of Ihs areas ranging from 7 to 293 per cent. At Arches National Park there were 3,919 visitors during dur-ing February compared with 3,671 a year ago, bringing the total for 1972 to 6,677 compared com-pared with 5,720 last year at the end of February. Increase for the month stands at 7 per cent while the increase for the two month period is at 17 per cent. Visitation at Natural Bridges Brid-ges National Monument reached rea-ched 433 for the month compared com-pared with 110 for the same month a year ago, a 293 per cent increase. This brings to 673, the number of people visiting there during this year to date compared with 197 a year ago. There were 356 persons who visited at the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park during the month compared with 194 a year ago. Totals for the year were listed list-ed at 552 compared with 358 a year ago. Needles visitation was listed list-ed at 651 for February compared com-pared with 252 a year ago and this .brings the two month total to-tal to 1,150 compared with 389 a year ago. Percentage increase for the month was 158 and for the year 196 |
