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Show - - -.,,. . , . Region Park Visits Up 10.3 Over 1975 More than 4.6 million visitors enjoyed the 12 national parks, monuments, recreation, and historic sites located in Utah and Northern Arizona during 1976, according to the National Park Service. They accounted for a 10.3 percent increase in travel over 1975 totals. Each of the areas attracted more visitors with the exception of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, where access to the visitor center where the counter is located was limited by road construction. Park officials there estimate that use was, more realistically, about the same as 1975. Glen Canyon National Recreation area, 1,061,716 (-6.8 percent); Golden Spike National Historic Site, 94,064 54 percent) ; Natural Bridges National Monument, 71,865 48.4 percent); Pipe Spring National Monument, 27,270 18.8 percent); Rainbow Bridge National Monument, 81,875 (25.6 percent); Tim-panogos Cave National Monument, 191,312 (20.3 percent); Zion National Park, 1,222,404 (5 percent). Elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Region of the Park Service, travel was also generally heavier. Montana visitation increased 6.7 percent, North Dakota 18.1 percent, South Dakota 16.8 percent, and Wyoming 24.3 percent. Visits to Colorado units of the park probably attributable to circumstances surrounding the Big Thompson flood disaster just outside the Rocky Mountain National Park. |
