![]() ![]() That’s almost always going to line up with visitor interest and use,” Densmore said. “The idea was to focus on the area that your park was first established to protect. On Wednesday, that stream was barely a trickle, but the pace no doubt will pick up by the weekend, even though only the Amphitheater and Rim trails are open to hiking for now. Usually this time of year, 2,000 cars a day stream into this park, said Bryce spokesman Peter Densmore. “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Rutland said. The weather was pleasant and the views crystal clear, with minimal crowds at what can be one of Utah’s busiest destinations. Aside from the limited park services, the family could not have picked a better time to visit Bryce. ![]() Jen Erickson and husband Blaine Rutland hoped they could ride horses with their two young daughters into the Amphitheater, but it’s not likely park concessions will be up and running for another week. He and his wife wound up visiting Bryce Canyon National Park with members of their daughter’s family, who are on a six-month road trip around the nation, and enjoying the southern Utah destination on its first day open after many national parks closed last month in the face of the spreading coronavirus pandemic. “This is fantastic,” said grandfather Dave Erickson, who was on a trip returning home from Arizona. With the wind humming through the ponderosas on the Paunsaugunt Plateau, three generations of the Erickson-Rutland family of Minnesota gathered Wednesday morning on the edge of the Bryce Amphitheater, taking pictures of one another as they peered into the basin filled with pink towers eroding out of the cliffs. ![]()
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