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Show Visits to Utah National Parks site by IS Per Cent Last Year Half a million more persons islted Utah's national parks, nonuments and other areas istyear than during 1974, the National Park Service reported Cllhis week. Nj Utah's 12 national parks, f nonuments, and recreation ind historic sites had a total of 1,572,921 visitors last year, cmpared with 3,973,172 the ear before. Visitation figures at Nationally Nation-ally Park Service areas in other tocky Mountain states were 'N, iniformly higher with the 'antaception of those in South )gkota. To Each park area in the state DE-iad greater visitation in 1975 SLlEhan the preceding year with he exception of Glen Canyon )necational Recreation Area and iwer timpanogos Cave National lilecrfonument. Late winter and -eiv;pring snowstorms accounted poo, n large part for the reduced nge isitation to Timpanogos Cave. Eas: Visitation figures for the 699, 'ear, with 1974's figures in y d larenthesis, include: (20j Arches National Park, 237, th)15 (171,313); Bryce Canyon National Park, 579,331 (410, ieni07); Canyonlands National ikerark, 71,774 (58,988); Capitol slie teef National Park, 292,093 lain:233,975); Cedar Breaks Na-i Na-i thiional Monument, 360,179 274,694); Dinosaur National Monument 380,836 (332,648). Glen Canyon National Rec-ngeeationArea, Rec-ngeeationArea, 1,139,275(1,158, ititt!02); Golden Spike National Dr.. " ' Historic Site, 61,091 (48,705); Hovenweep National Monument, Monu-ment, 13,207 (11,003); Natural Bridges National Monument, 48,431 (40,300); ' Rainbow Bridge National Monument, 65,171 (55,104); Timpanogos Cave National Monument, 159,062 (226,620); and Zion National Park, 1,164,556 (941, 313). The figures for National Park Service areas in other Rocky Mountain states, with the 1975 figure shown first, include: Colorado 6,286,047 (5,574, 956), up 13 per cent; Wyoming 5,648.022 (5,367,899), up 5 per cent; Montana 2,176,764 (1, 946,525), up 12 per cent; South Dakota 3,860,372 (3,940,408), down 3 per cent; and North Dakota 808,870 (705,023), up 15 per cent. |