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Show j Travel to Parks Shows falling Off . Visitor No. 51,650 was the last one counted during Zion National park's 1932 travel year, which ended on September Sep-tember 30. The loss in numbers of park visitors for the 1932 year was 7,53G, or 12.7 per cent under the 1931 total of 59,186, which was the largest travel year in the history of the park. The 1932 figure is 3,647 below the' 1930 total and 18,267 above 1929. j Of the total for 1932, 50,483 visit-! ors came in their own motor trans- j portation, 1,087 by Union Pacific and! the Utah Parks company tour busses, J and 80 by other means, principally! hiking. ' Auto visitors represented every ; state and the Distrjct of Columbia' Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Australia,' Austria, Africa, Canada, China, Cen-' tral America, England, France, Germany, Ger-many, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, I Panama, Porto Rico, South America, British West Indies, Finland and Haiti. The home state of Utah, of course, ! led the others in the numbers of visitors, vis-itors, with 23,641, California being second with 18,353. Of the states east of the Rocky Mountains, New York led with 1,073 and Illinois was second with 1,020. The total travel in 1932 from coun- tries other than the United States and its possessions was 240, as compared with 215 during 1931. The largest travel day was March 27, when 154 cars and 809 visitors entered. While September 30 is the closing date of the official National Park service travel year, Zion National park is accessible to motorists throughout the year. Visitors coming after September 30 are counted in the new year. Bryce Canyon National park, according ac-cording to figures computed to September Sep-tember .30, attracted 34,143 visitors, as compared with 41,751 during the 1931 travel year. This shows a decrease de-crease for the past year of 7,428 over that of 1931. The loss this year at Zion National park is practically identical with that of Bryce canyon. Of the travelers entering Bryce canyon, can-yon, 33,118 were traveling1 by private motor vehicle, 991 by stage, and 34 by means of hiking, etc. Auto travel represented all of the states and the District of Columbia, Canada, Panama Canal Zone, New Zealand, Haiti, Hawaii, Mexico and i Philippine Islands. Of the out-of-state , visitors, California led with 10.820, j Nevada was next with 839, and Colo-1 rado next with 831. The states east of j the Mississippi sent a total of 2,329 ! visitors to the park. j t ! |