Zion sets visitation record, highlighting crowding concerns

ST. GEORGE — Zion National Park has already set a new visitation record with a month left to go in 2017, a milestone that highlights concerns about overcrowding at the iconic red-rock landscape.
Nearly 4.4 million people visited the park through the end of November, an increase of about 5 percent over last year, the Spectrum in St. George reported Thursday.
Attendance at Zion has risen steadily over the past decade and is up some 70 percent since 2010, when there were 2.7 million visitors