Inholding along popular trail in Zion NP acquired for transfer to NPS—but thousands of acres remain

Spread across Zion National Park is a patchwork of private parcels, complicating park management and enabling potential trophy homes to rise in otherwise wild landscapes.

One of those “inholdings,” a 35-acre piece at Firepit Knoll near Zion’s Hop Valley trailhead, is to become part of the park under a deal announced Monday by the nonprofits Trust for Public Land and National Park Foundation.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2018/10/08/zion-national-park-will/

Recent Posts

See All

USNPS: Most NPs will close during shutdown

The majority of the country’s national parks will close and be made off-limits to the public if the federal government shuts down, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday, a move th

US NPs, tourism businesses face uncertainty as government shutdown looms

It’s wedding season at Acadia National Park in Maine, and Tabitha Brown can barely keep up with the demand for her “luxury picnics” — champagne and charcuterie served seaside. The fall rush around

Investigative report details "chaos, destuction" when NPs forced to stay open during last shutdown

By the time superintendent David Smith decided to close Joshua Tree national park on 7 January 2019, the list of problems was already long. Tire tracks wove through the wilderness mapping a path of