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Show Visits to National Parks In Utah Down in 1974 Visits to National Park Service areas in Utah declined de-clined by 9 per cent last year from 1973, consistent consist-ent with a regionwide trend of reduced travel during 1974. Utah 'a 12 national parks, monuments, and recreation and historic sites had a total of 3,-952,169 3,-952,169 visitors last year, compared with 4,-350,683 4,-350,683 the year before. Among other Rocky Mountain Region States, only Colorado showed a slight increase in visits to its National Park Service Ser-vice areas. Figures at park areas elsewhere in the Region were down from 4 per cent to 17 per cent. Utah's year-end figures fig-ures were buoyed by a late surge of visitors during the month of December. De-cember. A number of the State's park areas had significantly more visitors visit-ors during December than during the corresponding corres-ponding month a year before, be-fore, in keeping with a trend to increased wintertime win-tertime use of National Park Service areas. Only two of the State's 12 areas had increased visitations for the full year. They were Cedar Breaks National Monument Monu-ment with 274,694 (compared (com-pared with 201 .859 during 1973) and Timpanogos Cave National Monument -with 226,620 (174,617). Visitation figures for the other National Park Service areas, and the comparative figures for 1973: Arches National Park 171,313 (276,011); Bryce Canvon National Park 410,"307 (431,044); Can-yonlands Can-yonlands National Park 58,988 (62,574); Capitol Reef National Park 233.-975 233.-975 (311,197); Dinosaur National Monument 332, -648 (412723); Glen Canyon Can-yon National Recreation Area 1,158,202 (1,209,-116); (1,209,-116); Golden Spike National Na-tional Historic Site 48,-705 48,-705 (84,341); Natural Bridges National Monument Monu-ment 40,300 (42,724); Rainbow Bridge National Monument 55,104 (57,-077); (57,-077); and Zion National Park 941,313(1,087,400). |