1. Doing the Zion Shuttle

5. Culturally significant dating back 700AD Mormon influence beginning in 1858 Zion National Monument - 1909 Zion National Park - 1919 CCC construction 1930’s Kolob Canyon expansion in 1956 229 square miles of park land Zion – “the promised land” Doing the Zion Shuttle

11. Zion National Park

12. Doing the Zion Shuttle Problem: impacts to roads/parking; soundscape; wildlife; soil and vegetation Management Strategies: reduce the impact of use; harden the resource Management Practices: facility development/ site design/maintenance; rules and regulations; spatial and temporal zoning

13. In the late 1990’s as many as 5,000 cars entered the Canyon each day, competing for the area’s 450 parking spaces In 2000, 30 propane-powered “double” shuttle buses, each holding 66 people (or the equivalent of about 25 cars) Doing the Zion Shuttle

17. What would Ed say??? “There may be some…who virtually identify quantity with quality and therefore assume that the greater the quantity of traffic, the higher the value received.” “lock up their automobiles and continue their tour on the seats of good workable bicycles” “we’ll stretch a point…and let them ride the shuttle buses.”

18. Hiking the Subway (10:00)Hiking the Subway Flash flood (:40)Flash flood Hiking the Narrows (2:50)Hiking the Narrows Doing the Zion Shuttle