Starting Tuesday, visitors should expect long lines at the park entrance as Arches returns to its previous first-come, first-served approach.
Now that the timed-entry ticket program is ending, officials expect congestion and intermittent park closures to return.| Oct. 1, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
The national park — home to Utah’s iconic Delicate Arch — is ending its ticketed, timed-entry pilot program that launched in April, which aimed to reduce congestion and capacity closures afterThat means starting Tuesday, visitors should expect long lines at the park entrance as Arches returns to its previous first-come, first-served approach, since people tend to arrive around the same time, spokesperson Kaitlyn Thomas said.
“We do think that it probably did contribute a small amount, but that there were other factors — other socioeconomic factors outside of timed entry — that also decreased visitation,” she said.