If arachnids are your thing — even those hairy tarantulas — the Antelope Island State Park in Davis County is prepared to give you some fun with your eight-legged friends.
complete with walks, face painting, food, crafts and more. At 2 p.m., tarantulas are the star attraction.
Welcome to Utah's state parks, with 46 of them scattered from north to south, offering unique experiences for whatever a visitor might crave. But this much diversification has not been easy.You have to flash back to a 2011 legislative audit that excoriated the state parks division with findings that very few of the parks actually made money and were too dependent on state taxpayer subsidies.
The state parks' budget went from having 50% of its operational costs paid for out of the general fund to 10%, where it remains today. And Sand Hollow State Park in Washington County, given its reservoir offering and proximity to neighboring states such as Nevada, Arizona and California, has seen more than a million visitors a year for three consecutive years.Rasmussen said over the last several years the state Legislature has directed a combination of funding — about $250 million — to accommodate the surge in visitors and to invest in capital improvements.
"Lodging is one area we want to have a lot of variety," he said. "We want to give people different ways to experience camping." The addition of cottages or tiny homes at Echo, which Rasmussen describes as traditional camping cabins on steroids;Chavez said Echo also underwent a massive overhaul, with the addition of a store, a new beach, new entrance and a significant extension and improvement of the boat ramps. And earlier this week, the division celebrated the opening of aThe division said there are no long-distance archery ranges in Davis County, even though interest in archery has spiked dramatically.
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