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Show June Travel Down m Some Areas," But Totals for ffie Yecr are Stiff Op isi I at ion at bolh Arcltes National Monument find the Island - in - the- Sky seel ion of Canyon la nils National Na-tional I 'ark experienced drops in visitation during June, compared with June of l'JTO, according to a report re-port released by the National Na-tional Park Service this Week. At Ai-cWes. :M,4M visitors visit-ors were reported for June id' this year compared with :('. (i',17 for the same monlh a year ajro. Visitation fur the year, however, remained remain-ed above that for the same six month period a year ajjo with tU,o75 and 7l.),0;i8 re-'spectively. re-'spectively. At the Island only 3,4G 1 persons visited during June compared with 5, (:!'.) for last June. There, too, visitation visi-tation for the year remained remain-ed a healthy jump ahead r.f last year with 10,880 registered reg-istered for 1971 and 9,418 for the first six months of 1970. Visitation in the Needles Need-les section continued to surpass figures for all previous pre-vious years with 4,448 visitors vis-itors during June compared with 3.002 for a year ago. Total for the year stands at 1 8.7-15 compared with 6,721 for the six months during 1970. Figures at the Needles Need-les have surpassed the total to-tal for the entire year of 1970 since April. Some 1G.72.-) people have visited Natural Bridges National Na-tional Monument so far th:s year for a pood increase increa-se over the 11,073 for last year at this time. In June visitation was up from 77,-4t"S 77,-4t"S in June of 1970 to 9,-380 9,-380 for this past month. |
