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Utahraptor State Park is the newest state park, located in Moab, which opened in May.

Kenyon Roberts, of Utah County, is credited with helping to create the state park, and was on hand for the ribbon-cutting.

Brad Walker, the park's manager, praises Moab's recreational offerings and the state park's facilities.

MOAB — "This is the most beautiful place on Earth."

"Every morning I watch the sun come up over the La Sals, it's like, right outside my door. It's kind of surreal that I get to call this home."

The above statements are about the same place.

Spoken 69 years apart.

The first quote is from Edward Abbey, the environmentalist and naturalist who, as a young park ranger in 1956-57, spent two seasons living in a government-issued hous

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