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Zion National Park Sets All-Time Record For Visitors In A Month

According to Zion National Park officials, the park set a new all-time visitation record in June, shattering the previous record.Park Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh says approximately 670,000 people visited the park in June, surpassing the previous record of 629,000 visitors in July 2019.

 

Zion is still assessing damage caused by the June 29 flood and dealing with shuttle drivers resigning due to verbal abuse from visitors regarding the mask requirements on the park’s shuttles.

 

Zion isn’t the only overwhelmingly busy National Park. Many parks across the National Park Service are reporting a massive jump in visitation as most COVID-19 restrictions are being lifted. Arches National Park, for example, is closing regularly because of too many visitors on weekends.

Tyler Hewitt is the web/social media assistant at UPR. He writes stories every day, updates the website and manages the station's Twitter and Facebook pages. Tyler is a senior at Utah State University and is studying public relations, marketing, and psychology. He loves to write, listen to music, play video games, play tennis and hang out with his fiancé and cat, Juno. He is a great plant dad and recently started collecting vinyl records!