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Show All state parks, recreation areas will be open for Easter The spring camping season, for thousands of Utah families, Ix-gins each year with the Faster weekend. According Ac-cording to Kobert O. Anderson, Operations Chief for the Utah State Division of Parks and Recreation, a division of the Department of Natural Resources and Knergy, most Utah State parks and recreation areas will lie open and ready to serve visitors by the Faster weekend. Whether you are a camper, boater, fisherman, off-highway off-highway vehicle enthusiast, skier, hiker or history buff you should have no trouble finding one of Utah's 43 State parks w hich will satisfy your particular outdoor recreation requirements. The following developed State parks and recreation areas are open and ready to host visitors: Snow Canyon, St. George; Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Kanab; Goblin Valley, Hanksville; Dead Horse Point, Moab; Bear Lake State Park, Garden City; Yuba Lake, Nephi; Utah Lake, Provo; Willard Bay, Willard, Saltair Beach and Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake; Wasatch Mountain State Park, Midway; Kscalante Petrified Forest, Escalante; Kodachrome Basin, Cannonville; Green River State Park, Green River; Huntington Lake, Huntington; Starvation Star-vation Lake, Duchesne; Hyrum Lake, Hyrum, Steinaker Laker, Vernal; Deer Creek Lake, Heber City; Rockport Lake, Wanship; Minersville Lake, Ik'aver; and Otter Creek Lake, Antimony. An-timony. Palisade Lake State Recreation area will only be open sporadically due to road construction. Reservations will not be taken until construction is complete. Boating waters free of ice include: Utah Lake, Willard Bay, Yuba Lake, Hyrum Lake, Rockport Lake, Deer Creek, Huntington Lake, Great Salt Lake, Flaming Gorge, Lake Powell, Starvation Lake, Otter Creek Lake, Minersville Lake, Easty Canyon Lake, Steinaker Lake, and Bear Lake 'marina still frozen). Ice remains on Scofield Lake and Strawberry Reservoir. There are a number of excellent off-highway off-highway vehicle riding areas within, adjacent to, or originating from State parks and recreation areas throughout Utah. Ten areas offer on-site or nearby riding opportunities: Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Escalante Petrified Forest, Goblin Valley, Great Salt Lake-Saltair Beach and Antelope Island Districts, Kodachrome Basin, Steinaker Lake, Yuba Lake, Lark Sand Dunes O.H.V. State Park, and Brigham City Motorcycle Park. Boat and off -highway vehicle owners are reminded that their recreation equipment must be currently registered for the 1982 season. Vistiors should be prepared to pay day-use fees at all State parks and recreation areas except Pioneer Trail State Park and undeveloped parks. The day-use fee is $2 per day for private vehicles and its occupants; 50 cents per person for walk-ins and bicyclists; $1 per person in groups of 20 or more by advance reservation only; and 50 cents per person for commercial vehicles. Utah residents 62 years of age and older or physically disabled, upon completion and acceptance of (he required affidavit af-fidavit will be issued a "Special Utah Fun Tag" permitting free day-use in all State parks. Overnight camping is available on a first-come, first-served or reservation basis. The overnight camping fee permits day-use in the park and overnight camping for one vehicle and any attached recreation equipment until 10 a.m. following the day of arrival or each successive day thereafter. |