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IVINS, Utah — Presidents Day weekend is one of the busiest weekends of the year at Snow Canyon State Park, with most visitors expected to arrive midday Saturday, but there are things visitors can do to help improve their own enjoyment of Southern Utah’s beautiful 7,400-acre park and help reduce overcrowding in the park.
Although the park is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., most visitors come between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Therefore, visitors coming between 6 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. or after 4 p.m. will have easier access and reduce congestion for those coming during peak hours.
The park plans to implement traffic control at both park entrances to ensure visitor and resource safety, a news release from the park stated. Along these lines, a temporary entrance freeze will be put in place when designated parking areas and pullouts are full. Visitors should be prepared for long entrance lines with the possibility of up to an hour wait. Alternatively, the park suggests, visitors can help alleviate the parking congestion by carpooling … or visiting on another date.
Snow Canyon State Park offers inexhaustible resources to explore.
One example is the Hidden Pinyon Trail, a 1.5 mile long nature trail that winds through slick rock canyons and traverses both slick rock and lava rock. It is a relatively mild, family-friendly trail with big payoffs. Although the park’s 60 for ’60 challenge celebrating it’s 60th anniversary last year has come and gone, to learn more about the Hidden Pinyon Trail, read more here: Explore: Take Snow Canyon State Park’s ’60 for 60′ challenge.
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