{"id":16075,"date":"2016-09-24T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16075"},"modified":"2016-09-17T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T18:39:09","slug":"ksl-zion-national-park-trying-to-keep-up-with-growing-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/24\/ksl-zion-national-park-trying-to-keep-up-with-growing-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"(KSL) Zion National Park trying to keep up with growing crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_as\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) \u2014 Zion National Park officials say visitation has already grown by 11 percent this year and is on track to surpass 4 million visits.<\/p>\n<p>The St. George Spectrum reports that Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh says it&#8217;s tough to keep up with the crowds during peak times like holiday weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Bradybaugh told the Washington County Commission that park officials are trying to determine how many people a day can be accommodated at the park without stressing the natural environment being preserved for future generations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/index.php?sid=40943882&amp;nid=157\"><strong>Click here to Read More&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/index.php?sid=40943882&amp;nid=157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zionnationalpark.jpg\" alt=\"zionnationalpark\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zionnationalpark.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/zionnationalpark-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) \u2014 Zion National Park officials say visitation has already grown by 11 percent this year and is on track to surpass 4 million visits. The St. George Spectrum reports that Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh says it&#8217;s tough to keep up with the crowds during peak times like holiday weekends. Bradybaugh told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16076,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16075\/revisions\/16076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}