How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint When Traveling to a National Park

The fourth largest most-visited national park in the country has lots of approaches in place to decrease the effect of the range of guests. Water bottle refill channels make it easier to refill your bottle instead of purchasing another disposable jar. Along with yet an extensive recycling program makes it effortless to properly throw your garbage and assist recyclables to stay away from landfills.

However, these efforts are only effective if people do their part. If you would like to lower your carbon footprint throughout your trip to Zion National Park and Springdale, Utah then read on for a couple of straightforward ideas.

Put Trash Where it should go

As soon as you’ve packed your garbage off the road, you can visit one of the park’s numerous receptacles. But do not just toss it in the garbage. It is important to understand exactly what things can be recycled and what can not, which means it is possible to make certain you’re recycling as far as you can. Common items that can be recycled include magazines, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and glass containers. Items that cannot be recycled include: plastic shopping bags, dirty paper products, tissues, wrappers, styrofoam, plastic utensils

Even if you want to invest the majority of your time hiking in Zion, it’s still possible to cut back on emissions throughout your trip. Most of the year, as a result of the canyon shuttle, it is possible to learn more about the park and get its hottest trails and overlooks without driving your car or truck around the grounds.

However, you might also take this suggestion one step further by remaining in Springdale at the Driftwood Lodge. This way you can leave your vehicle at the lodge during your stay, and use both shuttle systems to rapidly and easily get around. Additionally, you will not ever need to worry about finding parking! Driftwood is on the Springdale Shuttle Loop, which makes it effortless to roll out of bed, jump on the shuttle, and access the area without ever getting in your vehicle.

Whatever you Bring in, Bring Out

Whether you intend to do some trekking, like a picnic at the park, go sightseeing, or like any other experiences in the area, packaging your garbage is among the most significant ways that you can lower your carbon footprint.

Everything which you package in wants to return with you. This includes not only paper and plastic but food scraps too.

Do not Disturb Wildlife

Lowering your carbon effect means doing what you can to protect Zion’s natural resources, such as the critters that call the park home. From stone squirrels to mule deer, these apparently passive creatures are in fact incredibly dangerous. Not feeding them can help you to stay safe, and protect these fragile creatures. Not many wildlife feedings are deliberate. Preventing food scraps or garbage behind brings all sorts of wildlife. They could eat the garbage or food, which may make them sick, or damage themselves about the packaging. In precisely the exact same manner as reaching out to nourish a stone squirrel a little bit of food assembles addiction, leaving garbage for animals to induce them to reduce their capacity to seek for themselves.

We hope you visit Southern Utah soon, and when you do, book a stay at the Driftwood Lodge for an effortless and luxurious trip.