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Show Pcrhs draiv 0 million visitors A record 6 million visitors visi-tors were attracted to the 12 National Park Service areas located in Utah during 1978. The 6,185,094 figure represents rep-resents an increase of 266,-319 266,-319 over the 1977 total. Contributing to this 4.5 percent climb were increases in-creases at 10 of the 12 areas in the state. Natural Bridges National Monu-A ment and Cedar Breaks National Monument each recorded re-corded slight decreases for the year. Visitation figures on a park by park basis for the state ( with the 1977 figure listed in parentheses) were: Arches National Park, 326,-948 326,-948 (313,383); Bryce Canyon National Park, 680,328 ( 612,769 ); Canyonlands National Park, 86,307 (75,-621); (75,-621); Capitol Reef National Park, 427,726 (467,953);Ce-dar (467,953);Ce-dar Breaks National Monument, Monu-ment, 351,557 (356,090); Dinosaur Di-nosaur National Monument, 430,250 (412,873); Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 2,211,818 (2,127,419) Golden Spike National Historic His-toric Site, 78,126 (77,670); Natural Bridges National Monument, 69,941,(75,193); Rainbow Bridge National Monument, 95,530 (87,300); Timpanogas Cave National Monument, 118,644(102,855) and Zion National Park, 1,-307,919 1,-307,919 (1,209,649). Visitation to park areas of the Rocky Mountain Region of the National Park Service, Serv-ice, which is comprised of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and a portion of Arizona, also increased during the last year. The regional increase amounted to 1.75 percent, bringing the total to 29,154,745 for 1978. Q |