MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER

Continuing the Effort to Improve the Zion Experience in Sustainable Ways

As we begin a new year, with 2022 being the second busiest year in the history of Zion National Park, it was also a banner year for the partnership between our parks and the Zion Forever Project. Thanks to our combined efforts, we continue to initiate and complete exciting and important projects that sustain our parks. Together with your support in 2023, we will recognize the 100th anniversary of Pipe Spring National Monument, open the new Visitor Contact Station at Cedar Breaks this summer, and break ground for new facilities with our East Zion Initiative partners – All while providing exemplary operational services to visitors and providing for critical needs including search-and-rescue training to park staff. The Zion National Park Forever Project is enabling great work for great parks serving our enthusiastic visitors. Side-by-side, our two organizations are working to improve these special places so that the landscapes, soundscapes, nightscapes, plants, animals, and the history that defines them continue to wow the millions who visit our parks each year.

It’s obvious why so many of our visitors share a love for these places, but parks cannot care for themselves, and we hope you will join us in saluting the interns, sales associates, field rangers, maintenance staff, bus drivers, and administrators who keep the parks operating smoothly day-in and day-out. We are thankful for their patient dedication to caring for our parks, and we are grateful to supporters like you who share in our work.

In this Field Guide, you will find the projects we have prioritized in 2023 and beyond to continue conserving these extraordinary landscapes and provide the best experience possible for our visitors. We look forward to another year of strong collaboration to make Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks, and Pipe Spring National Monuments even better together – Because of you!

Natalie Britt, President & CEO Zion Forever Project

Jeff Bradybaugh Superintendent Zion National Park

“WE MUST BECOME NATURALIZED TO PLACE . . . TO TAKE CARE OF THE LAND AS IF OUR LIVES, AND THE LIVES OF ALL OUR RELATIVES DEPEND ON IT — BECAUSE THEY DO.”

RobinWallKimerer,Author,BraidingSweetgrass