Easter at Little Sahara Recreation Area
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http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_12117948
Off-roaders escape it all at Little Sahara
It can be good family fun, but cops are on the lookout for the 'crazy' element.
By Donald W. Meyers
The Salt Lake Tribune
04/11/2009
Little Sahara Recreation Area » If there's a recession going on, it's not obvious here.
As of Friday morning, 14,000 people had already made their way to Little Sahara to climb the dunes with sand rails, ATVs and motor bikes. For some, it's also a chance to leave the cares of the world behind for at least a weekend.
"It's like taking off a backpack and losing all that weight on your shoulders," said K.C. Shafer, of Clinton, relaxing with friends at a campsite near Sand Mountain about 23 miles south of Eureka in Juab County. "This is the most relaxed I've been in two weeks."
But the weekend will not be relaxing for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which runs the 60,000-acre Little Sahara, or the numerous police agencies that come to make sure that what eventually could be 32,000 off-roaders play safe and obey the law.
Among the agencies helping keep the peace in this temporary city are the sheriff's offices of Juab, Utah and Davis counties, Utah State Parks rangers, the Utah Highway Patrol, the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles, the state Department of Natural Resources, West Juab Ambulance and AirMed, which is keeping a helicopter available for emergency evacuation.
Read the complete story at: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_12117948
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http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_12117948
Off-roaders escape it all at Little Sahara
It can be good family fun, but cops are on the lookout for the 'crazy' element.
By Donald W. Meyers
The Salt Lake Tribune
04/11/2009
Little Sahara Recreation Area » If there's a recession going on, it's not obvious here.
As of Friday morning, 14,000 people had already made their way to Little Sahara to climb the dunes with sand rails, ATVs and motor bikes. For some, it's also a chance to leave the cares of the world behind for at least a weekend.
"It's like taking off a backpack and losing all that weight on your shoulders," said K.C. Shafer, of Clinton, relaxing with friends at a campsite near Sand Mountain about 23 miles south of Eureka in Juab County. "This is the most relaxed I've been in two weeks."
But the weekend will not be relaxing for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which runs the 60,000-acre Little Sahara, or the numerous police agencies that come to make sure that what eventually could be 32,000 off-roaders play safe and obey the law.
Among the agencies helping keep the peace in this temporary city are the sheriff's offices of Juab, Utah and Davis counties, Utah State Parks rangers, the Utah Highway Patrol, the Utah Division of Motor Vehicles, the state Department of Natural Resources, West Juab Ambulance and AirMed, which is keeping a helicopter available for emergency evacuation.
Read the complete story at: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_12117948
www.DuneGuide.com
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