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. 28 article, “could result in off-road vehicles allowed on the White Rim and other national park roads.”
To decimate the peace and serenity that comes with experiencing wild places that are liberated from the oppression of motorized sounds is as criminal as it gets.
Ellen Birrell, Cottonwood Heights
