Utah's state parks bursting with visitors

SALT LAKE CITY — As Utah residents gas up and go this holiday weekend, they're likely to find state parks bustling with visitors enjoying the last long holiday of the summer.A recent analysis by the University of Utah's Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute found that visitation at Utah's 43 state parks jumped 16 percent overall from fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2016."It's been fantastic," said Fred Hayes, director of the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation. "The last four or five years in