National Parks Are Overcrowded and Closing Their Gates
By Allison Pohle
| Photographs by Niki Chan Wylie for The Wall Street Journal
June 13, 2021 7:00 am ET
MOAB, Utah—Southeast Utah is among the most popular tourist destinations in the U.S. with two national parks and millions of undeveloped acres.
But visitors are increasingly spending more time sitting in their cars as they wait to access the vast outdoors.
“Anywhere you go, there’s going to be a line,” said Libby Preslock, who on a recent Thursday arrived at Arches National Park at 9 a.m. only to find that it was full and signs encouraged visitors to come back in three to five hours.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-parks-are-overcrowded-and-closing-their-gates-11623582002
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Visitors turned away as national park fills up in Utah
Lucy Kafanov, Leslie Perrot and Marnie Hunter, CNN • Updated 2nd July 2021
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/arches-national-park-visitors-overcrowding/index.html
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2021 10:40PM by KenS.
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