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State, County Move to Designate Bridal Veil Falls as State Monument with $1.2 Million in Legislative Funding
Summary
Utah State Parks and Utah County staff presented an interlocal agreement to co‑manage Bridal Veil Falls as a State Monument. The legislature appropriated $1.2 million, with a required dollar‑for‑dollar county match and additional trail funding of about $400,000 noted.
Utah State Parks and county attorneys briefed the Utah County Board of Commissioners on plans to designate Bridal Veil Falls as a State Monument and work with the county on improvements.
Jeff Rasmussen, director of Utah State Parks, told commissioners that the State Monuments Act creates a lighter footprint than state parks and is intended for historically or geologically significant sites that will not be developed with full park facilities. "It was $1,200,000 that the legislature appropriated last session to go towards improvements to the Bridal Veil site," Rasmussen said, adding that the appropriation requires a dollar‑for‑dollar match from Utah County and…
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