Visitors Crowd Into Zion National Park Over Memorial Day Weekend

Above, The Organ at Zion National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Having too many people in a small area at a national park is not my idea of fun.

This is what happened in a single day over the Memorial Day weekend at Zion National Park in Utah.

According to U.S. News & World Report:

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than 30,000 people crowded to Zion National Park in a single day over Memorial Day weekend as the iconic red-rock landscape at the already crowded park remains highly popular. 

The Deseret News reports that some visitors waited an hour and a half to ride the shuttle in the popular park. Visitation Zion has spiked by 60 percent increase over the last decade, and most people crowd to Zion Canyon, a 6-mile corridor along the Virgin River.

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