NEWS RELEASES
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Desert Sun's website.
Being the eleventh most visited park in the country, as last year's records indicate, comes at a cost. Annual attendance at Joshua Tree National Park has nearly doubled in the past five years. Due to the growing attendance, the parks west entrance has experienced hour long waits and has congested the parking lots inside the park to an unsettling point.
According to the Desert Sun article, "During peak periods, Park Service staff, from the superintendent on down, along with community partners, direct traffic, waving pass-holders through the entrance gate and managing parking at popular attractions." The Park Service is planning to demolish the fee booth at the west entrance and construct a new one about a half mile inside the park boundary. The new entrance should include additional entry and exit lanes and automated fee pay stations. Construction on the project, which will be funded by park entrance fees, should be completed by 2022.
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