Every year more and more people visit Utah's National Parks. Locally, Canyonlands National Park saw 450,000 visitors in 2012. Five years later that jumped to 740,000 visitors. Similarly, there were 1 million visitors to Arches National Park in 2012. By 2017, that increased to 1.5 million. What are the impacts of such increased visitation? Today we revisit UPR's original series, "Loving Our Lands To Death." The last piece in their series features the third most visited park in the entire country - Zion National Park. Through the lens of Zion , we'll hear about several issues faced by America's parks that are caused by an increase of humans on the landscape.
