Zion National Park - Your Dollars At Work (U.S. National Park Service)

Zion National Park is being cared for today and for future generations, by the National Park Service. This dual objective—use today and tomorrow—comes at a price. Protecting our natural and cultural heritage while ensuring that visitors have a safe, enjoyable, and educational experience, is expensive. As the number of visitors to parks continues to climb due to the popularity of these national treasures, government funding available for necessities such as road and building repairs, campground maintenance, visitor protection, resource protection and other services has not kept pace with demand. In 2004, to address these needs, Congress signed the Federal Lands Recreation Act (FLREA) which allows the U.S. Department of the Interior to implement an interagency Fee Program in three of its agencies—the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The program also includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. The program directs funds collected from park visitors towards the maintenance of the facilities they are utilizing.
Zion National Park is a participant in the Interagency Recreational Fee Program. The program authorizes Zion National Park to keep up to 80% of the fees collected. These funds have been, and will continue to be, used for maintenance, repair projects, public service programs, signage, and natural and historical resource preservation, as listed below. The remaining revenue is generally distributed to parks that do not collect fees, but have similar needs, and to fund other servicewide initiatives.

Approved On-Going Projects
Zion Canyon Shuttle System Operations
Repave and Chipseal Park Roads
Replace Deteriorating Wayside Exhibits
Print Park Brochures
Rehabilitate South and Watchman Campground Amphitheatres
Rehabilitate Watchman Campground
Prune and Remove Hazardous Trees
Improve West Rim Trail
Replace Obsolete Comfort Stations
Develop Park Orientation Film
Replace Carpeting in Kolob Visitor Center

Completed Projects
Constructed Shuttle Bus Operations and Maintenance Facility
Constructed Zion Canyon Visitor Center
Rehabilitated 1928 Nature Center
Safety Improvements at Tunnel East
Built Emergency Operations Center
Rehabilitated Weeping Rock and Emerald Pools Trails
Replaced decking on Parus Trail Bridges
Repaired Trailhead Parking Areas
Catalogued Museum Collections for Public Use
Replaced Shuttle Bus Graphics and Displays
Re-roofed Zion Human History Museum and Refurbished Museum Auditorium

Future Projects
Rehabilitate South Campground
Rehabilitate Historic Grotto Museum and Picnic Area
Develop Park Information in Foreign Languages
Stabilize Cable Mountain Cableworks
Restore Hop Valley Wetland
Improve Critical Woodland Elk Habitat

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Your Dollars at Work (13 Photos)