Dear HCN,
Larry Warren said in the
April 10 High Country News that, “Beginning May 23, Zion (National
Park) becomes the first Western park, and just the second in the
national park system, to go carless. Acadia National Park in Maine
was the first.”
Mr. Warren should check out the
history of Alaska’s Mt. McKinley National Park, which in 1980 was
re-named Denali National Park and Preserve. For the past 25 years
or so, the only motorized access into the heart of the park is by
free shuttle buses which travel the 90-mile dirt road between park
headquarters and Wonder Lake. I would venture to guess that this
use of shuttle buses was the Park Service’s first and
longest-running use of mass transportation to solve visitor
circulation problems.
Tom
Meacham
Anchorage,
Alaska
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Carless in Denali.
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