Daily News | Residents fight back against proposed national park at the Delaware Water Gap
Layton, N.J. — Alongside fields of wildflowers and on restaurant porches, written large outside a sportsmen’s store above ads for firewood and deer corn, new signs and banners dot the landscape near the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania and New Jersey., the group behind the signs, opposes a plan to designate the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area as the region’s first national park.
A larger concern for Hull is whether the park designation would drive out locals living among the recreation area’s miles of winding country roads because of crowding and eminent domain. They fear centuries-old traditions, like hunting and fishing, will be barred from the park. The Delaware Water Gap is currently one of the nation’s most popular outdoor destinations, with an estimated more than 4 million-plus visitors annually.
“National Park status will significantly increase the number of visitors to the park in the near term and the long term — thereby increasing the environmental footprint and creating increasing rationale for additional infrastructure including parking lots, sewage treatment and other utility facilities, hotel housing, and other development,” Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper, wrote in a letter to the National Park Service last month.
“A national park is the highest level of protection offered by the National Park Service,” Donahue said.
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