Zion National Park Forever Project

Improving today - providing parks with resources immediately impacting and improving daily operations and visitor experiences. Critical projects included continued investment into Zion's eastern gateway and groundbreaking on the new Zion national Park discovery center in q2 of 2023. The new visitor hub will connect them with the landscape and the national Park service, provide unique educational and recreational opportunities, and bring needed utilities and resources, including transportation, to the remote gateway. Other significant projects included continued funding of important in-park native american tribal gatherings and continued support for cedar breaks national monument. With their new visitor center set to open in august 2023, the monument also required updated solar panels, new signage and displays, and a new permanent station on the Park's northern edge. To learn more, read our annual field guide at zionpark.org.

Protecting Forever - projects that conserve the Park's most precious cultural and Natural resources. Initiatives include; a focus on securing numerous critical conservation easements on land adjacent to Zion national Park- funding for tribal youth summer camps-support for dark sky research and programming, and investments into the Park's animals and scientific studies, including fundamental research related to bats, ringtail cats, and new techniques for digital fossil recording. To learn more, read our annual field guide at zionpark.org.

Informing tomorrow - a focus on Park and education resources designed to elevate the next generation of Park leaders and stewards while inspiring a hopeful future. Examples of this season's work include; funding the junior ranger programs at Zion, cedar breaks, and pipe spring, reaching more than 40,000 junior rangers-funding for the parks distance learning program that broadcasts to students in the us and globally-supporting teachers workshops that provide educators with needed continuing training-continued support for our flagship concrete-to-canyon program which sees title 1 students in las vegas invited to the Park for their first Zion experience. Zion Forever also funds regional initiatives to bring students into the Park and rangers into the physical classroom. To learn more, read our annual field guide at zionpark.org.