Donald Trump has occupied the White House for just over a year, but rural Utah political leaders say they’ve seen enough of his good works to justify renaming the state’s most scenic highway route, winding past and through five national parks, after the 45th president.
Rep. Mike Noel’s HB481, which would affix the Trump name to the Utah National Parks Highway, is largely a gesture of thanks for Trump’s recent decision to reduce Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
But Noel and the bill’s supporters praised Trump for putting the “public” back into 2 million acres of public lands removed from the monuments.