Outdoors fans are looking to national parks for a safe escape from the coronavirus epidemic, but locals worry about visitors straining limited resources and spreading the virus
By Elizabeth Findell | Photographs by Mikayla Whitmore for The Wall Street Journal Updated March 23, 2020 2:18 pm ET LEE’S FERRY, Ariz.— As a pandemic ravaged the world, Mark Malchoff was preparing to drop off it for a while.
On one hand, there is no better quarantine than complete isolation in the wilderness, they said. On the other: What will the world look like when they re-emerge? Will they be able to get home? What if one of them is already sick with Covid-19 and doesn’t know it yet? Five members of Mr. Malchoff’s group backed out, afraid they could contract or spread the virus while traveling from the Northeast to Arizona. But Mr. Malchoff was unwilling to cancel the long-planned chance to raft the Grand—an opportunity awarded to private rafters only through a high-odds lottery that most enter for years without winning.
In Moab, Utah, the base for exploring Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance urged visitors not to come for fear of spreading the virus in the town and overwhelming a tiny local health system. Tom Martin, founder of River Runners for Wilderness, emphasized the distinction between crowded sights or trails and wilderness experts setting out on self-contained trips.
“It’s just more open and easier to keep a safe distance,” said Ms. Martinez, 24, on a bluff above the ocean. “Plus, the view is better.”
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