Alamogordo, NM – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 555,794 visitors to White Sands National Monument in 2016 spent $29,298,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 437 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $33,565,900.
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Grand Canyon, AZ – At approximately 12 pm on Sunday, April 23, Grand Canyon National Park was alerted to a personal locator beacon activation near Hance Rapid on the Colorado River. The Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center then received a satellite phone call from a private boating trip in the same location reporting CPR in
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The National Park Service will host the second annual Love Your Lake Community Cleanup on Saturday, April 29, and is seeking volunteers to help keep Glen Canyon National Recreation Area beautiful. Volunteers will receive free park admission April 29 plus a pass to return another day, and prizes will be raffled off for several lucky participants.
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DEATH VALLEY, CA – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that visitors to Death Valley National Park spent $108,000,000 in communities near the park last year. That spending supported about 1,500 jobs in the local area.
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Tourism to Glen Canyon National Recreation Area supports 3,419 local jobs, a new federal report shows, indicating a 40 percent increase since 2015. Spending in local communities by park visitors also increased 40 percent last year to exceed $240 million.
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The historic Tumacácori Mission church will once again fill with the sound of music, brought to us by Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts’ premier community chorus. On Sunday, April 30 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., the Santa Cruz Singers, under the direction of Christina Wilhelm, will present a concert of sacred music featuring the Gloria
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Grand Canyon, Ariz. – After five days of extensive searching, today the National Park Service (NPS) is reducing the scale of the search for two hikers who went missing at Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, April 15. The hikers are identified as Lou Ann Merrell, 62, and Jackson Standefer, 14.
Twentynine Palms, CA- Joshua Tree National Park– A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2,505,286 visitors to Joshua Tree National Park in 2016 spent $123,304,500 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,701 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $164,529,900.
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Grand Canyon, Ariz. – On Saturday evening, April 15 the National Park Service received an alert from a personal locating beacon in a backcountry area of Grand Canyon National Park near the confluence of Tapeats Creek and Thunder River. An Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter flew to the location where a hiking party reported two members of
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Zion National Park has released a draft of the South Entrance Monument Site Reconfiguration Environmental Assessment (EA) for public review. The alternatives portion of this plan describes a range of actions, such as redesigning the South Entrance Monument site and adjacent parking area. The South Entrance Monument Site would be redesigned to enhance visitor safety,
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