{"id":93677,"date":"2025-08-19T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93677\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T06:30:09","slug":"can-southern-utahs-small-towns-grow-recreation-economies-without-losing-their-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93677\/","title":{"rendered":"Can southern Utah&#8217;s small towns grow recreation economies without losing their charm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. GEORGE \u2014 As rural communities across southern Utah face both the promise and pressure of growing outdoor recreation economies, a new national guide may help chart the way forward. And Utah leaders say this new tool couldn&#8217;t come at a more relevant time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Trail Map for Rural Development in America&#8221; was released by the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable to provide actionable strategies for small towns seeking to leverage the benefits of recreation while preserving their unique sense of place.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Chris Perkins, vice president of programs for the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable, the document was not authored by Utah officials, but the state&#8217;s outdoor recreation leaders are reportedly embracing its principles, said Tara McKee, deputy director of the Utah Division of Outdoor Recreation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly encourage towns to proactively connect with these partners and leverage their expertise, funding and support to turn their visions into reality,&#8221; McKee said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stgeorgeutah.com\/news\/can-southern-utah-s-small-towns-grow-recreation-economies-without-losing-their-charm\/article_d3866213-66fa-4790-9fa5-22d602a4d8fb.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at St. George News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. GEORGE \u2014 As rural communities across southern Utah face both the promise and pressure of growing outdoor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,1302,3811,101,192,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3930,3814,99,1505,2987,2427,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-93677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-recreation","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-travel","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}