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Show faster Crowds Establish Record 1 For Zion National Park Travel The largest single day's travel 'o data into Zion National Park Las recorded on Easter Sunday, April 21. 1935, when a total of 1, 002 persons passed through the park checking stations, an increase in-crease of over 21 per cent above previous high record for one day. which was on Easter Sunday, 1930, when 1,652 persons entered enter-ed the park. A large proportion of the 351 automobiles entering the park on Easter Sunday of 1935 bore Utah license plates, with those 'from California in second place. Other states represented re-presented were Arizona, Nevada. Montana, Idaho, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Florida; and also the Canadian Province of New Brunswick. Easter Sunday ha always been the heaviest travel day of the year in Zion National Park, the unusual increase in-crease this year being attributed to the first annual Easter program pro-gram to be held in Zion Canyon. Superintendent P. P. Patraw statss that this newly inau'grated annual event will probably cause next year's Easter travel to be double that of this year. Although this Easter Sunday throng was approximately six times as large as on an average summer day, the park officials stats that it offered no unusual " traffic problems, due -to the excellent ex-cellent behavior of all visitors and the efficient organization of the park rangers. Weather throughout the day was ideal for .viewing the park under the most ujwrtne conditions of spring rejuvenation, re-juvenation, and many visitors who had seen the region at all seasons declared that this was ihrir most pleasant visit, j Travel into Zion National Park hrs a'so shown a decided general increase over that for the cor-re;panding cor-re;panding period of last year, ihe latest figures showing an increase in-crease of 22.75 per cent. Superintendent Super-intendent Patraw states that this increase is due not only to the recent Easter crowds, but also to 'ihe hard surfaced approach rmd which is now virtually completed com-pleted into the park, and which should continue to attract increasingly' in-creasingly' large numbers here, ' that motorists can drive over hard sur.'aced roads all the way from either Los Angeles or Salt Lake City to the park. |