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Show Utah National Parks Parks report visitor increase Half a million more persons visited Utah's national parks, monuments and other areas last year than during' 1974, the National Park Service reported today. Utah's 12 national parks, monuments, and recreation and historic sites had a total of 4,572,921 visitors last year, compared with 3,973,172 the year before. Visitation figures at National Park Service areas in other Rocky Mountain states were uniformly higher with the exception ex-ception of those in South Dakota. Each park area in the state had greater visitation in 1973 than the preceding year with the exception ex-ception of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Tim-panogos Tim-panogos Cave National Monument. Late winter and spring snowstorms accounted in large part for the reduced visitation to Timpanogos Cave. Visitation figures for the year, with 1974's figures in parenthesis, paren-thesis, include: Arches National Park, 237,915 (171,313); Bryce Canyon National Park, 579,331 (410,307); Canyonlands National Park, 71,774 ( 58,988); Capitol Reef National Park, 292,093 ( 233,975); Cedar Breaks National Monument, 360,179 (274,694); Dinosaur National Monument, 380.836 ( 332,648). Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 1,139,274 (1,158,202); Golden Spike National Historic Site, 61,091 (48,705); Hovenweep National Monument, 13,207 (11.003); Natural Bridges National Monument, 48.431 (40,3000); Rainbow Bridge National Monument, 65,171 (55,104); Timpanogos Cave National Monument, 159,062 (226,620) ; and Zion National Park, 1,164,556 (941,313). |