It could be worse. Campers in the Klondike Bluffs area near Moab are leaving poop behind to the point that it’s become unsanitary.
There is a lot of recent talk about how the Utah’s technology economy has taken off, but the recreation economy is roaring, too. (In fact, Utah’s technology economy is built on access to recreation.) But we’re not keeping up with the infrastructure to handle more people, and the conflicts are growing.
We could blow this. We could fail to handle the masses, and Utah could become known as a place to avoid.