News Release_Implement a Day Use Permit for the White Rim and Elephant Hill Roads

[sawtooth4x4]

Comment now. Why the hell should we have to try to get a use permit when we already have to pay to get into the park. Maybe the stupid jeep jamboree could stay out and not flood the trails.

Last time I went on these roads, there was only one other person out there.

APRIL 15th is the deadline!!!!!!! Fill this out now!!!!!!

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=37&projectID=50620&documentID=64683
News Release_Implement a Day Use Permit for the White Rim and Elephant Hill Roads

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to require permits for all motor vehicle and bicycle day use on the White Rim and Elephant Hill roads in Canyonlands National Park. Requiring permits for day use on these increasingly popular roads will help the park better protect resources and the visitor experience in these wild and remote locations.

For the White Rim road, a total of 50 day use vehicle permits (including motorcycles) and 50 day use bicycle permits will be issued each day. Group size will be limited to three vehicles and 15 bicycles.
A total of 24 day use vehicle permits (including motorcycles) and 12 day use bicycle permits will be issued each day for the Elephant Hill road. Group size will be limited to three vehicles and 12 bicycles.
Each motor vehicle and individual bicycle will need a permit.

No fee will be charged for these day use permits during the 2015-2016 seasons. Payment of the park entrance fee is required for day use and will be collected with permits issued online or at the time of entrance to the park for walk in permits. Annual Passes, Military Passes, Senior Passes, and Access Passes will be honored for entrance.

Comments regarding this day use permit proposal may be submitted electronically by clicking on the attached news release and selecting the Comment Now button. If comments are not able to be made via this website they may be sent to: National Park Service, Southeast Utah Group, Attn: Planning and Compliance Coordinator, 2282 S. West Resource Blvd, Moab, Utah 84532. Faxed comments may be sent to (435) 719-2300.

The deadline for comments is April 14, 2015.

 

[Herzog]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[sixstringsteve]

Thanks for posting this. We were on the White rim trail 2 days ago, and I'm glad we didn't have to have any more permits than we already did. I'm not a fan of so many permits. That being said, Canyonlands has one of the most convinient (if there is such a thing) permit systems out of the other NPs I've been to.

 

[Bart]

This is the first of the showdowns that will come with the Red Rock Wilderness initiative that is being backed by the Obama regime. By making this a permit only access area and limiting vehicles they are squeezing the growing population of OHV and 4 wheelers into less area, and will eventually come after that because there will be too much impact on it from overuse. This is SUWA and environmentalists in a well organized campaign and based on a very biased survey done in 2013.

 

[Herzog]

This is SUWA and environmentalists in a well organized campaign and based on a very biased survey done in 2013.

Just like a "Protect Wild Utah" bumper sticker on the back of a toyota pickup with mountain bikes mounted to the back of it.
Ahem - you won't be riding your mtn bikes here for long!

The thing we need to realize is that suwa plays on the trendiness of topics rather than putting out their true agenda.

 

[Kevin B.]

There was a "Protect Wild Utah" sticker on the trailhead sign for the White Rim. There's not enough rolleyes in the world...

 

[sixstringsteve]

comments submitted.

 

[sawtooth4x4]

DO IT! Or we won't be using these areas.

If you've been to Yellowstone Park or Glacier National park. You know all you can do is hike or drive on pavement. It sucks when you have babies or elderly people. There is so much you can't even get to because a 15 mile hike through Grizzly Bear country is hard and dangerous.

 

[Herzog]

There was a "Protect Wild Utah" sticker on the trailhead sign for the White Rim. There's not enough rolleyes in the world...

Should paste over it with "Explore Wild Utah" stickers.