The National Park Service reversed direction Friday on off-road vehicles, announcing that the machines will not be allowed on park roads in Utah after all.
On Sept. 24, the services’s regional office in Denver directed Utah park superintendents to remove ORV bans from their rules effective Nov. 1, opening the door for “street legal” versions of utility terrain vehicles, or UTVs, to enter Utah parks and roam backroads like those on Canyonlands’ White Rim and Needles District.
The logic behind that earlier move was founded on a Utah law that allows street-legal ORVs on most public roads, streets and highways in the state.