# 2025-00509: Park Service Updates Where You Can Drive at Glen Canyon

2025-00509, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; Motor Vehicles, is a Federal Register rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-13, effective 2025-02-12 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00509
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00509
- Title: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; Motor Vehicles
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-13
- Effective: 2025-02-12
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Park Service Updates Where You Can Drive at Glen Canyon

## Summary

Starting February 12, 2025, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is updating its rules about where and how you can drive motor vehicles on roads and off-road trails. These changes affect visitors who love exploring by car, ATV, or other motorized rides, aiming to protect the park’s natural beauty while keeping adventures fun and safe. If you’re planning a trip, get ready for clearer rules and remember to share your thoughts by the deadline!

## Abstract

The National Park Service revises special regulations for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to update rules about the use of motor vehicles on roads and off roads on designated routes and areas.

## Effects PRIA read

- Bans for OHVs/ATVs on specific roads: cost, medium. Starting February 12, 2025, the rule prohibits off-highway vehicles (OHVs) and street-legal ATVs on an 8-mile segment of the Poison Spring Loop in the Orange Cliffs Special Management Unit and removes the superintendent’s ability to open the upper Flint Trail to those vehicle categories. The rule a…
- Lake-level rules may close shoreline access: mixed, medium. The rule requires the superintendent to set lake-elevation trigger levels (using USGS and Bureau of Reclamation hydrologic data) for 11 shoreline access areas; if the lake elevation falls below a site’s level and remains so for seven consecutive days, that shoreline access area will close to off-ro…
- Shoreline access limited to road-to-shore travel: cost, medium. Off-road vehicle use in designated shoreline access areas is limited to travel strictly between a GMP road and the shoreline and back; dispersed or general overland driving within those shoreline access areas is not allowed under this rule. The rule clarifies this does not apply to Lone Rock Beach,…
- Longer quiet hours at Lone Rock Play Area: benefit, low. The rule changes quiet hours in the Lone Rock Beach Play Area from a fixed 10:00 p.m.–6:00 a.m. schedule to a variable sunset-to-sunrise schedule (the superintendent may lengthen this period). This will generally lengthen nighttime quiet hours and allow them to shift with the seasons without additi…
- Limited effect on existing guided tour businesses: mixed, low. NPS states that two businesses currently have commercial use authorizations (CUAs) to provide guided OHV/ATV tours in the recreation area and those businesses are not authorized to operate in the Orange Cliffs Special Management Unit and do not offer tours on the unpaved roads affected by this rule…

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## Sources
- [2025-00509 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/13/2025-00509/glen-canyon-national-recreation-area-motor-vehicles)
- [2025-00509 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-13/pdf/2025-00509.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00509 (as of 2026-06-11).