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Show Bryce Records 25 Increase In Visits Over Last Year 11 r- BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK Visits to Bryce Canyon National Park for the first four months of 1988 are up 25 percent over the same period in aitj, 1987 according to a recent report , ,from the Rocky Mountain Hh Regional Office of the National 'P 'park Service in Denver, ttavj' Some 71,699 people have )be? passed through the entrance way to h i Bryce Canyon since January 1. In 1987, by December 9, one million visitors had visited the park and if the present trend continues, that figure will be reached earlier in yQc 1988. Rocky Mountain Region parks rank high on visitors' lists in 198 as indicated b)i .& 3 percent increase over the same four-month period last year. That's' the same percentage percent-age as shown in the National visitation figures. More than 2.3 million people visited parklands in the states of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, North Dakota and South Dakota between January and the end of April this year. Glen Canyon National Recreation Recre-ation Area, featuring the 186-mile-long Lake Powell extending from northern Arizona into southern Utah, again leads in visitation so far this year, surpassing even Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone National Parks. Here is a rundown of visits in Utah Parks: Arches National Park 88,064, up 11 percent; Bryce Canyon National Park 71,699, up 25 percent; Canyonlands National Park 39,286, up 14 percent; Capitol Capi-tol Reef National Park 73,078, up 7 percent; Cedar Breaks National Monument 17,159, down 17 percent; per-cent; Glen Canyon National Recreation Recre-ation Area 514,193, up 8 percent; Golden Spike National Historic Site 6,821, up 11 percent; Natural Bridges National Monument 13,915, up 10 percent; Rainbow Bridge National Monument 26,366, up 13 percent; Timpanogos Cave National Monument 2,936, down 9 percent; Zion National Park 280,405, up 13 percent. |