The Bureau of Land Management is giving the state of Utah and Emery County thousands of acres of land, essentially tripling the size of Goblin Valley State Park.
At a ceremony at the park on Friday, BLM director Tracy Stone-Manning signed papers to convey 6,300 acres to the state.
It's happening as a result of a bipartisan bill Congress passed. Sen. Mitt Romney co-sponsored the legislation. Goblin Valley State Park is becoming increasingly popular, drawing over 500,000 visitors a year now. "With these new access points, you can get there with a passenger car. So we’re going to mark those with signs and let people know how to get into them," said Jim Wells, the park manager.
"We’ve had incidents in the past out there and we’ve had to station deputies in different locations and relay until we could finally hit a radio tower," he said.
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