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Show Glen Canyon Visitation Is Climbing Visitation seems to be on the rise In most of Glen Canyon National Recreation Recrea-tion Area and the Rainbow Bridge National Monument, according to Informationre-celved Informationre-celved this week. This year to date only one of seven areas In the vicinity of these parks indicates in-dicates a decline In visitation, visita-tion, Orange Cliffs, which has had a total of 110 visitors visi-tors this year one third of the 303 visitors to date last year. Escalante has received a total of 150 visitors so far this year which Is qutte a Jump over the 66 total of last year. The total visitation to date for Glen Canyon areas has reached 135,857, which is a 15 per cent Increase over ov-er last year's total of 118,-008. 118,-008. Visitation to Rainbow Bridge rose 64 per cent with a total of 1,742 visitors visi-tors this year over 1,229 total last year. Wahweap appears to be the most popular fishing spot as 7,867 visitors chose this area during the month of March. Backcountry camping camp-ing is also widespread In this area. 4,326 campers took to the backcountry of Wahweap during March. Lees Ferry had more picnickers pic-nickers during March, however. how-ever. A total of 408 were listed by the Nattonal Park Service. |