Ashley Bunton: “In Moab, we always look out for people and each other, but how much can we do to offset the stress placed on us by tourism?”
In Moab, we always look out for people and each other, but how much can we do to offset the stress placed on us by tourism?By Ashley Bunton | For The Salt Lake TribuneAt a Moab restaurant filled with tourists, a waitress apologized for being short staffed when I arrived to pick up my to-go order. After 30 minutes, she brought me a free drink for the wait. Crying, she said she wanted to kill herself. I left with the order and called the Utah suicide helpline.
Sadly, these are not rare occurrences. Every year since 2020, I responded or helped someone with suicidal ideation.was published by the Daily Yonder. It provides some explanation to how the National Park Service has managed public lands over the decades. It also offers a glimpse into the nightmarish fervor and mental health impacts of working and living in a tourist town., which several of us in Moab took. I said well-being in Utah is declining, even more so in small tourist towns like mine.
In Moab, we always look out for people and each other, but how much can we do to offset the stress placed on us by tourism? The rest of the state isn’t helping. Utah is a wrecking ball to public lands. It’s been legislated to strategically target millions of people with tourism advertisements to the point of overwhelming national parks and the small towns that neighbor them. My neighbors and I are left to worry about the environment, our privacy and our safety.
Everyday, I check the landscape, pull out litter and pick up trash in the streets. Tourists roar by in RAZRS and off-road vehicles that rattle windows even when they idle. Noise above 55 decibels is deemed “
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