Zion saw a 10% decrease in visitors in 2022 compared to 2021, but it still had the second busiest year in its history with 4.5 million visitors.
Conservation group urges park managers to make changes that will preserve the land and the experience.
“We are glad that many people are getting outside to enjoy their parks and public lands,” Bradybaugh said in a news release, “but it does present challenges for park staff protecting park resources, maintaining public health, and sustaining facilities. Zion’s celebrity has created some “challenges,” admitted park superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh — ones not resolved by 10% fewer people wandering the park’s trails.
While those numbers may be trending down, they remain high and likely will continue to rise given Zion’sover the past 40 years. And the effects of that increased traffic are compounded at Zion because while it encompasses more than 200 square miles, most visitors want to spend their time in the first 10 miles of Zion Canyon. Parks likeas Zion each year, but they can handle it better, MacNulty said, because they have more entrances and their attractions are more spread out.
“Visitation to the National Parks and visitation to Southwest Utah are not the exact same thing. I think we need to keep that in mind going forward,” she said. “There’s a lot of public lands and there are a lot of communities with amazing reasons to visit, of which Zion is just one.”Back in 2000 it banned nearly all cars in the canyon and now relies mostly on its shuttle system to deliver tourists to its most popular trails.
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