| Show — J Je s 4Z turnon !UH£ Rag P9 rrg ra tvjfr 1 Travel Americans happy campers Boot$’ of Europe 1 satisfaction in air national parks is high By CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS NOW parks o The lodges the eating the parking the searching for public restrooms - it’s all there Now lest you imagine a phalanx of big black helicopters bearing down on Old Faithful be advised that the Moscow in question is Moscow Idaho That's where Gary Machlis the chief social scientist for the National Park Service is professor of forest resources and sociology at the University of Idaho With the help of graduate students and local volunteers Machlis crunches thousands of numbers each year to try to quantify how we feel about our national parks and the rangers who run them This is no small job: The national park system involves about 20000 permanent and seasonal employees and has an annual budget of about $2 billion The surveys were designed to help managers measure satisfaction levels With the peak season for park visits approaching the findings of Machlis and company also offer some perspective for travelers heading to one of these federally protected slices of the great outdoors Don’t 150 00 Medical Care Living Community discounts Special DementiaAlzheimer's Wing Care on September October and November departures Prices are pp dbl occ and include roundtrip air from Salt Lake City all transportation in Europe sightseeing hotels 25 meals tips & taxes 24-Ho- Private Studios and Units m Assistance Dressing and Bathing Incontinent Care Cruise fit Travel Masters For a brochure call SLC - Europe Experts - Ph: 800264-055- 7 good news campers hikers is that is getting reports on what we Americans do in and think of our national offering $1 With Personalized Place PeachTteeji Assisted 2700 0 er jl Beautiful Jiomelikejllmosphere 15-da- Weekly departures March thru November with land and air inclusive prices ranging from 2430 Los Angeles Tunes and regular 0 y escorted tour 4CU Experience Holland Belgium Germany Austria Italy Switzerland & France Report shows visitor The Standard-Examin- Housekeeping and Laundry Assistance Four Beautiful Dinipg Rooms CALL 31 YEARS OF THE FINEST PERSONALIA ESCORTED TOURS Wash DC Planned Activities CAXADIAM ROCKIES TOUR 515 July 'is Only $1325 Victoria Banff Waterton Iake Louise Glacier Nat'l Park Calgary Stampede & more The greatest scenery in our hemisphere! 6-- Gettysburg PhiUy NYC Boston and all church sites from Sharon VT to Independence Includes 21 Meals Hill Cumorah Pageant' cfzthzmznt Community 4607 S Midland Dr Roy BRAXSCR TOURS Only $1875 JUKE PACIFIC IBM TEMPLE TC"R OCT Ice Cream Parlor WEBBT0LRSCOM LOS CKURCHAKERICAM HISTORY JULY : 12-1- OCT SEPT 7 4 (with Nauvoo) OCT 18-2- 3 16-2- 1 A New Christmas itineraries also available 5 OTHER llPCCHlftS TOURS 17-2- 7 September 6 Seats Left Rose Festival June 5-- I DS Church History In The British Isles -- 12-1- I DS Church History in the Fall Oct 5-- Aug 29 Our new press and facility will bring a better brighter newspaper to your starting doorstep in the Fall of 2000! 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II IB Standard for the New Millennium Panama Canal Cruise Octpber 20-3- 0 brad! wwwpeachtreeplacenet § if § I § uy 0 II & 6 jth lr w be in a rush ' One lesson: If you get out of your car and stay a while the qrowds will thin out Park service veterans say this is true in almost any park In a 997 survey of Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah 1 researchers found that 80 percent of visitors toured by automobile leaving their vehicles only for short walks to viewpoints About 59 percent spent less than a day in the park and of those 47 percent spent four hours or less Surveying Mojave National Preserve the same year researchers found 61 percent of visitors stayed less than a day and of those 49 percent were gone in three hours or less Another tidbit: Your chances of being satisfied with the public restrooms are good according to this data Among 4438 visitors surveyed in 15 parks in 1998 and 1999 67 percent found restroom - conditions good or very good and 23 percent found them average Each year Machlis and company analyze detailed visitor surveys from a different set of 10 to 15 parks and they separately tally broader visitor questionnaires from more than 300 parks throughout the 379-par- k system Nationwide park officials Counted 2867 million visitors in 1998 They forecast 2913 inillion visitors for this year about one visit for every US citizen although repeat visitors are counted more than once Throughout the park system July is traditionally the busiest month followed by August and ®QjF VARIABLE RATES AS LOW AS available for Fact: No closing costs and first year annual fee is waived Fact: Interest only payments Fact: Home Equity Lines the first ten years Fact: Interest may be tax deductible Consult your tax advisor up to 80 are available with rates as low as Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Prime for LTVs also available at excellent rates Fact: Fixed rate Home Equity Loans are also available Higher LTVs are at a very attractive rate (loan-to-valu- AS OF 41000 "'""I e) Home Equity Line or information on our Fixed Rate Home Equity get the rest of the facts on a First Security Or visit any First Security Branch Loan call To June Offer expires June 30 Now that’s service i - In “Serving the Visitor 1999” a “report card” booklet sent by top park service officials to superintendents and rangers recently survey responses suggest that visitors are fairly happy campers: s Of 2954 visitors surveyed in 14 parks in 1998 and 1999 (the survey rotates parks annually 40-pa- ge f rNi7 always including a regional mix) 88 percent rated service by park personnel as “good” or “very f£¥ X tine good” Of 1964 visitors surveyed in 40 parks about their visitor Renter experience 80 percent said “good” or “very good” Picnic and overnight camping areas drew similar ratings I These results don’t vary widely from previous surveys In a separate tally of 307 parks that tompleted visitor satisfaction surveys in 1999 (27267 visitors Jvere surveyed in all) the system’s overall visitor iatisfaction rate was 94 percent 4 IJ 4 With you (LTV) For loam having o 10 upon credit worthing! 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