BOULDER, Garfield County — Changes are coming to a popular recreation site within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as its current infrastructure struggles to handle growing popularity.
The Bureau of Land Management announced last week that it has filed a decision record for improvements to the Calf Creek Recreation Area in Boulder. The approved improvements include:
- A replacement of current infrastructure, including creek-crossing structures, shade shelters, restroom, fee station and retaining walls. Meanwhile, a small amphitheater, a nature trail and pedestrian pathways will also be constructed.
- An addition of 70 parking stalls through the reconfiguration of the main parking area, while also constructing new designated parking and widening of an access road.
- Moving all of the day-use amenities to one area, which will include a shaded group shelter.
- Adding new camping units. Existing camping units will be modernized and the host site will be relocated.
- Adding new vault toilets and on-site trash collection.
- Relocating the trailhead and rerouting the beginning of the Lower Calf Creek Falls Trail around the campground.
- Installing a communication fiber line so emergency phone and Wi-Fi communication can be set up at the site in the future.
The exact cost of the project, or a timeline for when it will be completed, were not disclosed; however, Harry Barber, the manager of the Bureau of Land Management’s Paria River District, said the Great American Outdoors Act, which was signed in 2020, will help deliver funds needed to complete the project.
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Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.
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