BY EMERY COWAN
Last month, Grand Canyon National Park released its own attempt to deal with trail overcrowding and conflicts, among other issues. Its draft backcountry management plan proposes a range of strategies to address not only interactions between visitors on the canyon’s most crowded trails but a range of other backcountry uses and impacts including canyoneering, river assisted backcountry travel, remote camping and rim-to-rim hiking.
The proposal that will likely affect the most people would require hikers who venture farther than five miles into the canyon to obtain a day-use permit, which would cost $5 or more...