![]() The Zion Lodge and other buildings of its era are nostalgic relics of the golden age of national park development – a time when the railroad controlled most of the tourism in national parks and Zion, Bryce Canyon and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon were no exceptions.Īided by the ideology of the first National Park Service director, Stephen Mather, who encouraged development in national parks to attract more tourists and justify the parks’ existence in the early 1920s, the Union Pacific Railroad, seeing the tourist potential, formed a subsidiary called the Utah Parks Company. Zion Lodge? It is probably not in the top five on most visitors’ lists of what to see in Zion, but it should be. These towering rock formations are usually what visitors think of when they picture Zion National Park.
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