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Show Five Month Tourist Report Indicates Boom in Utah Parks In spite of the cold spring season sea-son and inclement weather the travel records at both Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks indicate in-dicate that the 1955 tourist season sea-son promises to be one of the best for southern Utah. Superintendent Paul R. Franke announced that during May 31,-770 31,-770 visitors arrived at Zion in 10,-727 10,-727 motor vehicles. Compared to May, 1954 when 28,087 visitors arrived in 9,467 automobiles, this Is a gain of 3,693 people, equal to over 13 increase. For the first five months of the 1955 travel year Zion records 69,272 people in 23,977 automobiles against 1954 totals of 64,849 people in 22,224 motor vehicles. The five month increase is 4,423 people represents repre-sents a gain of more than seven per cent. The cold weather hit Bryce Canyon, at over 8,000 feet, with lower temperatures than Zion which is near the 4,000 foot elevation ele-vation level. However, the month of May 1955 produced a considerable consid-erable visitor increase at the former for-mer park when 20,378 people in 5,969 automobiles arrived. This gain for the month of May amounting to 3,271 visitors is a 17'4 increase. However, for the first five months of the year there Is a loss of nearly five per cent. The figures for the 1955 five month period at Bryce Canyon are 30,515 people In 9,488 automobiles auto-mobiles compared to a 1954 total of 32,048 people in 10,737 automobiles. auto-mobiles. With good weather Bryce Canyon National Park will no doubt soon overcome this small loss and boom to new travel tra-vel records. Pipe Spring National Monument Monu-ment travel figures are down nearly 50 as the weather has been a very important factor at that place. At Cedar Breaks National Na-tional Monument, where the roads have only been recently opened, we find the paved highway high-way has already brought a 10 per cent travel increase. |