Scott Bulloch wants you — and thousands of other hikers each year — to be to able cross his family’s land in the Zion Narrows.
Better yet, he wants the federal government to own or at least hold easements on his 880-acre parcel along Zion National Park’s eastern boundary.
He just wants fair consideration for property he and his family have held for 50 years, Bulloch said Wednesday, after they posted signs announcing a “trespassing fee” where the canyon enters the area known as Simon Gulch. The sign prompted the National Park Service to suspend issuing permits to hike what is considered among the world’s most sublime slot canyons — just as the fall tourism season is ramping up.