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Show Natural Bridges Travel Leads Park Visit Increases in Area Natural Bridges National Monument reports a total of 10,175 visitors in the month of July which is a 43 percent increase over the 7, 140 visitors for the month of June last year. Of these, 1,036 were reported repor-ted as overnight stays compared com-pared to 1,007 at this time last year. Arches saw a 5 percent increase over last July with 47,161 visitors this July. Island in the Sky's visitation dropped a -22 percent with 2,735 visitors reported for July 1976 as compared to 3,492 visitors for July 1975. The Needles district saw a -43 percent drop with 3,707 visitors for July 1976 as compared with 6,471 visitors for July 1975. The Maze increased 32 percent with 168 visitors for July 1976 as compared with 127 visitors for July 1975. Also reported was a 19 percent increase of use of the Green and Colorado Rivers with 1,556 visitors for July 1976 as compared with 1,308 of last July. To this date Canyonlands National Park has had 51,946 visitors which is an 11 percent increase over last years 46,955 at this time. From here the Maze has received an increase of 167 percent this year to date with a total of 2,502 visitors as compared with 938 visitors last year at this time. |