There could be a price to pay for those stopping to get a look at Utah’s beautiful fall colors over the next week or two.
On fall weekends at a few popular park city trailheads, visitors might face huge fines for getting out of their cars.
“It doesn’t last very long. You know, we get an early frost and it’s all over, especially if it’s been a dry summer,” said Heber City resident Michael Cohen of the leaves changing. “So you only have a few days that you can do it.”
In the middle of the day Monday, the Bonanza Flat trailhead parking lot was almost full.
“The drive up was just wonderful and the number of trees, yellow trees everywhere. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. We just really love it,” said South Jordan’s John Weil.
But the crowds Monday were nothing compared to the number of cars flooding Guardsman Pass over the weekend.
“[We] parked for five minutes to go take some pictures and come back and sure enough … we saw at least 6-8 cars in the lineup, ticketed,” explained Matt Townsend of Park City.