Cashing in on red-rock resources
UPDATED . . .
The Utah's Office of Tourism just got its advertising budget multiplied, just when it needed it most. The New York Times celebrates southern Utah's red-rock country as the "West's best kept secret" in an extensive and lushly illustrated travel article.
UPDATE: Utah’s Office of Tourism reports today that despite high fuel costs, more than 20 million granola-crunching, cocktail-swilling elitists visited the Beehive last year. The tourists dumped $7 billion into Utah businesses, a sharp increase. I hesitate giving you a link because the Governor's Office of Economic Development's website is about as readable as an insurance rider.
The Utah's Office of Tourism just got its advertising budget multiplied, just when it needed it most. The New York Times celebrates southern Utah's red-rock country as the "West's best kept secret" in an extensive and lushly illustrated travel article.
This corner of the southern Utah has since been immortalized by the painter Maynard Dixon, the novelist Zane Grey, the photographer Ansel Adams and countless Hollywood westerns. And yet, it still qualifies as the best-kept secret in the West. While millions of travelers are drawn every year to Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, Grand Staircase-Escalante and its surrounding area offer a seemingly endless choice of natural wonders that lie blissfully forgotten and empty. It’s America’s Outback.Expect crowded trails to Calf Creek Falls this spring. We can only hope that Energy Solutions and Rep. Mike Noel's plans to turn Utah into a nuclear wonderland will diminish the crowds.
UPDATE: Utah’s Office of Tourism reports today that despite high fuel costs, more than 20 million granola-crunching, cocktail-swilling elitists visited the Beehive last year. The tourists dumped $7 billion into Utah businesses, a sharp increase. I hesitate giving you a link because the Governor's Office of Economic Development's website is about as readable as an insurance rider.
7 Comments:
Great, now a whole bunch of New York hipsters, munching on Vegan trail mix, and wearing Patagonia shorts, are about to descend upon us.
Get ready to listen to alot of self-absorbed people describe how they "really connected to the planet, the earthiness of it all, you know?".
Look, we will take your tax dollars, but we could do without the condescension.
Wow--anonymous lives in the land of make-believe. I love it how people take stereotypes to be so real as to make fascinating stories out of them.
I don't care if it's New York liberals or rednecks from Payson--there are too many goddamn people coming to southern Utah. Every extra person makes the backcountry less enjoyable for everyone else. If you live in a city, I guess you don't care if a beautiful spot has twenty other people in it. Those of us who live here, however, do care. I'm considering the option that California surfers use to protect their spots from overpopulation: if you're a nonlocal parked at a break trailhead, you come back to a nasty note and dog crap on your car seat. Southern Utah is going to need more locals to be willing to act like jerks. Of course, it's gas prices and the failing economy that might really save us from being destroyed by industrial tourism. For awhile.
AMEN!!!
I am not from New York, or a hipster, a vegan, hate trail mix, don't spend patagonia type money on my shorts. I have as much right to be at a public trail head as the next person. Because you lives in red rock country you don't own it all. Get out more and get rid of your hostility! Other people are in the world and have every right to come enjoy parks and public lands. Good luck finding a cave to live in.
So, non-vegan-non hipster, which Anonymous family tree do you come from again? Anonymous 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5? I can't tell you apart anymore? Me? Ozark Anonymous clan.
"Southern Utah is going to need more locals to be willing to act like jerks."
Well, you're certainly leading the crowd anonymous! That's not your personal play-land down there. Public lands belong to all of us - we pay for them!
Sounds like you need to get out of the sun.
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