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Letter: Not the White Rim Trail

For Utahns and people around the United States — and, I suppose, the world — mountain biking the roughly 100-mile White Rim Trail loop along the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers in Canyonlands National Park is life-altering.

Surrounded by wilderness and the awesome effect it has, especially when one can bicycle and camp in it over a two- to four-day period of time, is irreplaceable in today’s modern world.

Under President Trump’s acting director of the National Park Service, a memo to Utah park superintendents instructs them to “allow off-road vehicles to travel state and county roads,” which, according to The Salt Lake Tribune’s Sept.