Evening star., 1940-04-14
Travellers Offered
New Facilities in
National Parks
Price Scales Trimmed
From Resort Stondord
To City Level

' ~SSVsA oA0u0osO '.e=
To City Level
Anticipating an unusually heavy
spring and summer travel season II
this Travel America Year" thu
National Park Service yesterday
reported to Secretary of the interior
Ickes that improved and enlarged
facilities will be available to visitor,
throughout the National Park sys.
tenn.
Two new parks will be open fol
the first time as national park.
which are attracting American trav-
elers who avoid war disturbed areas
overseas.
Many important rate reductions
have been effected by the service
particularly in minimum priced cab
In accommo odations, as q result OF
decisions reached at the superin-
tendents' conference with park op-
orators held in Santa Fe last fall
Unusual attention is being paid this
year to the rates for miscellaneous
items, often termed nuisance items,
so that park visitors will find more
and more the customary city prices
rather than higher resort prices so
often charged in short-season rec
reational areas.
Two new national parks, Kings
Canyon in California and Isle Roy
ale In Lake Superior, Michigan, will
be open to visitors this year. Both
are unusual and interesting wilder
ness areas.
For Hikers and Horseback.
A State highway leads into the
Kings CANYON National Park, but
the major portion Of its 454, 900 acres
will be maintained in wilderness
condition, accessible only by foot
and horse trail. A single developed
area with overnight accommodations
will be established at the end of the
entrance road, but work Is not ex-
pected to get under way on this
during the coming summer. How
ever, travellers who want to visit the
new park without roughing it will
find overnight accommodations In
the new parks General Grant Grove
section, which was formerly Cen
eral Grant National Park, and in
nearby Sequoia National Park.
Isle Royale, established as a ma
tlonal park early in April, is To-
Gated In Lake Superior about 60
miles from the Michigan mainland
and 20 miles from the Canadian
shore. The largest island in the
lake, it is about A miles long from
east to west and miles wide at
its broadest point, and contains
approximately 133,405 acres, which
will be maintained In their present
rugged. rocky, forested wilderness
condition.
No roads will be constructed or
the island, no automobiles will be
allowed there, and the only travel
will be by foot trail or by boa1
around the island. This summer the
National Park Service will continue
operation of the existing tourist
lodges and cabins at Rock Harbol
and Belle Isle and by midsummer
hopes to have limited facilities
available at Washington Harbor
c. c. c. enrollees will construct
cabins at the latter site and there
will eventually be 100 Of these struc-
lures available there. Trails and
campgrounds will also be provided
In the area, and the service will soon
advertise for bids for around-the-
island boat service which will en-
able visitors to visit each of the
key points on the island, moving on
from one to the other.
Other Services in Prospect.
The service also hopes to secure
more complete and satisfactory
transportation facilities from the
mainland to the island. At present
the most direct service to the island
is by boat from Houghton, Mich
The Alabama, large excursion boat
from Cleveland and Detroit, stops
at Rock Harbor once a week. Visi-
tors from Canada come from Port
William and usually stay at Belle
Isle, the nearest resort,
A new hotel development is avail
able this year ir Bandelier National
Monument, N Mex, near Santa Fe
A rambling adobe structure, it is set
at the foot of towering cliffs which
contain caves and dwellings of In
dians six and seven centuries ago,
OF the several gorges in the Monu-
ment. the service has made accessi-
BILE the most northerly-the beauti-
ful, heavily forested Frijoles Cam
yon-while other canyons, including
many interesting ruins, may be
reached by hikes and horseback
rides.
New cabins are being or will soon
be constructed in Crater Lake Ma.
tional Park, Oregon; Grand Canyon
National Park, Arizona; Glacier Ma
tional Park, Montana; Lassen VOL
canic National Park, California, and
Boulder Dam National Recreational
Area, Arizona and Nevada.
Housekeeping Cabins.
At Crater Lake these cabins will
be OF the housekeeping variety,
while In Lassen they will be de luxe
structures with full hotel accom-
modations, designed particularly for
organized tour parties.
In Glacier National Park the
cabins will be part of an entirely
new tourist layout at Roes Creek. at
the east end of the Going-to-the-
Sun highway. The unit will include
central lodge building with a large
lobby, coffee shop, soda fountain,
and a grocery store and so cabins.
A similar development probably will
be established at the west end of
the highway in 1941. A new central
lodge building containing coffee shop
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