Zion National Park to Close East Entrance

Taragana Blog ^ | 5/29/2010 | Zion National Park

[Utah Binger]

Road work at Zion park to close east entrance

SALT LAKE CITY — Major road work starting June 7 will shut down Zion National Park’s east entrance at times.

The national park says the Mount Carmel Junction Road will be closed weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Oct. 28.

It’s the first major reconstruction since state Route 9 was built in 1930.

The $6 million federally funded project will involve milling and grading the roadway down to its original elevation, compacting the road base, shoring up the historic retaining walls, providing drainage for groundwater and repaving.

Zion park, meanwhile, was planning the first in a series of prescribed burns late Tuesday to rid areas of cheatgrass and other exotic weeds. The burns are planned for small plots of three to 20 acres.

[Utah Binger]

It is hard to figure out these poor dumb souls. Pick the highest travel periods in high season at the busiest times of the day and close down all traffic to the route connecting historic Highway 89 at Mount Carmel Junction. These dummies could do the work at night from 10:00pm until 6:00am. What a joke!

[caver]

Zion, my favorite national park!

[Utah Binger]

Re-Route Tourism Ping

[DemonDeac]

Anyone who hasn’t been to that park ought to do themselves a favor and head out there. Its an amazing place. Personally I find it and Bryce Canyon to be prettier than the Grand Canyon.

[Ann Archy]

mine is up the road at BRYCE!!!

[caver]

I love Bryce Canyon too!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Zion National Park...truly beautiful...

[colorcountry]

Good to know. We will plan our trips accordingly.

Did you have wind on Friday-Saturday. It was so windy at the lake all we could do was stay in and relax. On Saturday we went to Bryce. My DIL wanted to do a hike so I suggested the Navajo Loop trail. Half of it was closed. :(

We had a great time. I miss Southern Utah!

[maxter]

Zion Nat’l Park is a definite must see.

[CalvaryJohn]

Idiocracy. No reason to not do most of the work in the off season.

Now, Yellowstone has winters that are not friendly to road work. I didn’t mind the construction there, besides, the park is so big you can avoid it.

Closing down half the access to Zion in the busy season is just, governmental. That’s the side with the road tunnel and Checkerboard Mesa, too. Very pretty.

[driftless2]

Both Zion and Bryce are beautiful parks. But Utah also has Arches, Canyonlands, and a few others that are also gorgeous. The whole state is practically a national park. Canyonlands is the wife and my favorite.

[DemonDeac]

Southern Utah might be the nicest part of the lower 48.

[CalvaryJohn]

Amen to those thoughts.

[driftless2]

We went throught Utah last year and saw Bryce for the first time. We also sailed through Capitol Reef without having time to really enjoy the park. When we go back in the future we’ll see more of CR.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

...Zion National Park

[Fiji Hill]

Not far from Mt. Carmel Junction is Kanab. Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) concluded his 1964 presidential campaign with a speech at Kanab’s airport, and when I visited Kanab in 2008, I met a librarian who had attended the event. Many movies, mostly horse operas, have been filmed in Kanab.

[BlazingArizona]

If you haven’t hiked Angel’s Landing, you haven’t hiked.

[Utah Binger]

Yeah, we had those winds here too. Yesterday we had the services for Mrs. Zornes with her memorial site up by her husband and Maynard. When they spread the ashes, up came a gust of wind and now we're all wearing the dust of Pat Zornes.

Otherwise the weather was beautiful.

[Utah Binger]

Not just governmental I believe it is intentional by someone trying to take business away from east Zion.

If you check out these East Zion Businesses you might get another picture of things.

[Verginius Rufus]

This is part of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy—signaling to the Muslims their opposition to Zionism.

[uglybiker]

Is that entrance even open in the off season?

[Mike Darancette]

This will hurt little Kanab, UT where Independence Day is what you imagine the USA used to be like. The drive from the east through he tunnel is the best route.

[Utah Binger]

Open year round since the tunnel opened. It is the only through way from I 15 over to Historic highway 89.

This is absolutely a political move that will require some legal action by all the business in Kane County.

Why do I say political you may ask?

Because there has to be a connection with all the tourist business wanting to keep the hotels and services full and away from all the business over on Highway 89.

This isn’t the first time it has happened.

[Utah Binger]

Absolutely correct.

[Tennessee Nana]

Is that like closing the Golden Gate on the eastern side of Jerusalem ???

[Utah Binger]

Might be close.

The problem is their stupid (intentional) timing.
We count on all of that traffic during the high season for sustenance of our businesses. The big shots in government want less business because they have to get off their dead asses and work once in a while.

[reaganaut]

So, does this mean you get the summer off? Time to come up and go fishing with me?

[Utah Binger]

That would be fabulous. Probably not possible.

[redhead]

"Zion, my favorite national park!"

Ditto! I have hiked those trails many times. Gorgeous place.

[Elsie]

The $6 million federally funded project....

WRONG!!!

The $6 million TAXPAYER funded project

[redhead]

"Zion National Park...truly beautiful..."

I have hiked the length of the Virgin River just like that. What an awesome experience!

[Elsie]

These dummies could do the work at night from 10:00pm until 6:00am.

True, but you'd have to find folks WILLING to do the work in that time period.

Push it up to 7 million and THEN you'd get it done that way.

They just wanna keep your visitors from getting to your place (You foul ANTI!) easily!

[Elsie]

We got tangled in the same type mess the year we came to see you; only it was in Yellowstone.

[Elsie]

The SUBWAY?

[Elsie]

Half of it was closed. :(

STILL?

[Elsie]

Not just governmental I believe it is intentional by someone trying to take business away from east Zion.

Ah HA!!

I was RIGHT!!

[colorcountry]

Probably permanently closed. They said it was due to falling rocks. Falling rocks in Bryce Canyon? Who’d of thought!

[Elsie]

 

This is part of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy—signaling to the Muslims their opposition to Zionism.

 

Speaking of ZION....

 

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[Elsie]

A river runs thru iut?

[reaganaut]

you have freepmail.

[reaganaut]

Cry. Anytime you want to come hunting or fishing let me know. I know where Cheney’s ‘secret undisclosed location’ on 9/11 was (they wrecked an SUV near my farm).

[Utah Binger]

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