Tuesday, March 18, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
It will cost more to visit Zion National Park in southern Utah beginning March 31.
The seven-day entrance fee of $5 jumped to $10 for each private vehicle. Later this year, the same fee will be collected at Kolob Canyons Visitors Center.
The nightly camping fee per site is now $10, up from $8. RV sites with electricity are now $12.
Instead of $3 for motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians, the fee is now $5 for a seven-day entrance.
There is a new $5 back-country permit per person per night.
Additionally, it will cost $5 to hike the narrows during the day and $20 for an annual entrance pass to Zion, up from $15.
The park will keep 80 percent of the increased revenues under a trial program, Superintendent Donald Falvey said.
Before now, entrance fees at all national parks went to the U.S. Treasury, becoming part of the operating funds of the federal government.
Falvey estimates the park will keep an extra $1.7 million a year for upgrading visitor facilities and improving services.
A new visitors center by 1998 is one goal for the extra fees.
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