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Show Fee Collection to Begin At Arches Bridges Visitor services and fee collection will be resumed at Arches National Park and Natural Bridges National Monument Mon-ument in April, Superintendent Superinten-dent Pete Parry announced this week. Beginning April 14, a daily entrance fee of $1.00 per vehicle, including motorbikes, will be charged. Fees for all other methods of entrance will be fifty cents per person. Recreation user fees (camping (camp-ing fees) will be collected on and after April 14 at Arches. Camping fees will be $3.00 per site per night; Golden Age Passport holders may camp for $1.50 per night. Fees will be collected by a Park Ranger at the individual sites each evening. A camping fee of $2.00 pernight will be collected collect-ed beginning March 26 for the Squaw Flat Campground in Canyonlands National Park. There is no charge for camping at Natural Bridges. As of March 15, the Arches Visitor Center is open daily to visitors from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The park remains open on a 24 hour basis. The popular Fiery Furnace Walk will begin on a 4-day-a-week schedule as of April 1. I 1 Participants in the two-mile guided walk will meet at the Fiery Furnace Parking lot at 9:00 a.m. Sundays, Wednesdays, Wednes-days, Fridays and Saturdays. Campfire programs will be given at the Devils Garden Campground amphitheater at 8:00 p.m., each Wednesday, Friday and Saturday beginning begin-ning April 2 and nightly from April 16 throughout the summer. The programs' sub-' jects will include geology, wildlife, plantlife, astronomy, and other subjects pertinent to the desert environment. At Arches various additional interpretive programs will be scheduled sometime in May. Included will be an evening slick rock walk, which was well received last season, Visitor Center Ranger talks, and a Bicentennial Program combining combin-ing history and dutch oven cooking at Wolfe Ranch. Details and dates of these programs will be announced as the season progresses. |