Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§271c Access Roads

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XXIX — CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK › § 271c

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may choose where to build entrance roads from U.S. Route 160 and State Routes 24 and 95 to Canyonlands National Park and to park sights. The Secretary may also pick outside sites for entrances and administrative facilities and for connecting roads between entrances or to roads inside the park. To do this, the Secretary can obtain private lands by donation, purchase, exchange, or other legal means. Rights-of-way outside the park must average no more than 125 acres per mile. The Secretary can make rules to manage those lands. The Secretary may build and maintain parkway-standard roads, bridges, and utilities using National Park Service funds. If a road crosses national forest land, the Secretary must get approval from the Secretary of Agriculture before building that part. The Secretary may also work with the Secretary of Agriculture to extend a forest road from State Route 95 to the park.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §271c

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(a)Entrance roads and connections; administrative headquarters sites

In order to provide suitable access to the Canyonlands National Park and facilities and services required in the operation and administration of the park, the Secretary may select the location or locations of an entrance road or roads to such park and to points of interest therein from United States Route 160 and State Routes 24 and 95, including necessary entrance and related administrative headquarters sites upon lands located outside the park, and he may select a suitable location or locations outside the park for connections between entrance roads and between roads lying within the Canyonlands National Park.

(b)Acquisition of lands; authority of Secretary; rights-of-way acreage limitation; administration

To carry out the purposes of this section, the Secretary may acquire non-Federal lands or interests in lands by donation, purchase, condemnation, exchange, or such other means as he may deem to be in the public interest: Provided, That lands and interests in lands acquired outside the park as rights-of-way for said entrance roads and connections shall not exceed an average of one hundred twenty-five acres per mile. Rights-of-way and entrance and administrative sites acquired pursuant to this authority shall be administered pursuant to such special regulations as the Secretary may promulgate in furtherance of the purposes of this section.

(c)Parkway standards for entrance roads and connections; approval of Secretary of Agriculture for construction of roads crossing national forest land (d) Forest road; cooperation of Secretary of the Interior with Secretary of Agriculture; extension

The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, improve, and maintain upon the lands or interests in lands acquired pursuant to this section, or otherwise in Government ownership, an entrance road or roads and connections of parkway standards, including necessary bridges and other structures and utilities as necessary, and funds appropriated for the National Park Service shall be available for these purposes: Provided, That if any portion of such road or roads crosses national forest land the Secretary shall obtain the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture before construction of such portion shall begin.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 271c

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110