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 Stories About: Arizona AND national parks AND placemaking AND politics AND wilderness
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28 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Mess Transit As perhaps the most famous national park in the United States, the Grand Canyon occupies an equally vast space in our national psyche as in our national landscape. Unfortunately, it is also our national bottleneck. Each year, 5 million people flock to the park, leaving 6,000 cars to battle for 2,400 parking spaces every day during the summer. Park officials have recognized the probl ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, national parks, placemaking, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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