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Show STATE PARKS ATTRACT 2,QC-??CD VISITORS Pioneer Monument, Vernal Museum Top List Visits to Utah's state park areas totalled 2,017,789 over the past three years, the State Park and Recreation Commission Commis-sion has announced in its annual an-nual report. Pioneer Monument State Park in Salt Lake City, better known as "This Is The Place Monument," continued as the top attraction, with 826,048 visitors counted, while the Natural Nat-ural History State Park at Vernal Ver-nal registered 488,892 visits. The Vernal Museum, with its dinosaurs dino-saurs and geological displays, serves as an "entry-port lor many tourists on busy U.S. Highway 40, park officials reported. re-ported. Museums, monuments and historic buildings such as the Brigham Young Winter Home at St. George, Old State Capitol at Fillmore, Stagecoach Inn at Fairfield and the Jacob Hamb-lin Hamb-lin Home at Santa Clara proved increasingly attractive to tourists. tour-ists. However, the visitor report also shows a heavy use of "natural" "na-tural" parklands plus a great gain in use of boating parks. Dead Horse Point Climbs A total of 52,756 visitors were registered at Dead Horse Point State Park, with use showing "a steady climb" despite road problems. prob-lems. Twenty thousand, two hundred forty-four persons visited visit-ed Dead Horse Point in the first ten months of 1964 compared com-pared to a total of 17.512 for all of 1963, while 1962 visits were set at 15,000. Eight developed water areas or boating parks supervised by the State Park Commission's Bor.ting Division have attracted 423,652 fishermen and water sports enthusiasts. The ten month use in 1964 totaled 163,-176, 163,-176, while in 1963 the water areas attracted 144,028 visitors and just 125,478 were reported in 1962. Boating Areas Added Boating areas include Bear Lake, at which a new marina was opened in 1964, as well as the state operation at Steinaker Reservoir, first unit of the new Central Utah project Another park area showing a significant visitor gain was the Dixie State Park near St George whore total visits for 1962-64 were 85,272. The overall total of park visitors vis-itors during 1962-63-64 included 88,772 persons estimated at eight undeveloped, unsupervised unsuper-vised state areas at which park rangers can make no accurate tally. These include sections of the Wasatch Mountain State Park now accessible to the public, pub-lic, and such spots as Newspaper News-paper Rock, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Gobli.t Va'.'ey and Kod- achrome Ear in. |