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Donations sought for Bridal Veil project

Leave it alone!!!

I don't go up there to be in the city! DUMB IDEA!!!

Don't forget to put in a hotel, Walmart and Oil Change place. Man! Can't you guys leave anything alone!

Before I plunk down my $99, I really need to know a lot more about Harper and Roller: their background, their potential for success, their fundraising plans and capacity. Good luck though with their venture, the area deserves the best and government seems to have been totally diinterested in making anything of the area.

While at BYU in the 1960's I lived in the canyon and watched the place as it was mismanaged. When I would visit since then I watched the place as it was mismanaged. An ongoing drain on the finances of everyone involved the Bridal Veil Falls area has never done well. Why resurrect a failure one more time. Leave it alone, don't develop anything and let it be. The falls will still run with water and look nice if there is only a parking area and no restaurant, shopping mall, ticket takers or tram. Let it be, leave it alone, remove all the commercial junk from the area. This is just one more money making scheme, not an attempt to clean the location and let it be.

It is a "crown jewel".

Please don't make it into a commercial jewel.

Nature has taken its course twice with the falls.

Please leave it.

Besides, can they really stop an avalanche from happening again?

Good luck to the group, and I will consider donating. I remember growing up this was the perfect spot to go on family outings. It is close to hiking, camping, and fishing. It was a great place to stop for ice cream after a day in the mountains. And a great half-way point between the city and the mountains.

I grew up drive though this place to Midway where out family cabin is since 1970's. and been stop there often as my father used to work and hunting in this mountain there. what pretty place, even recently burn down build on top of mountain which cause me mad. I alway had hope to see it be restore again before I gone. great place for Family gotta out from too much World in city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more time with family and mother nature that alway bring peace. I support them to restore no matter what!!!!! go for it.

I'll donate $99 if they remove all that crap off the mountain!

I grew up in Provo and visit at least annually so am in Provo Canyon several times a year. My vote would be to maintain a nice park at the base of the falls, tear out the tram and building, and possibly maintain some hiking trails. It this is a "jewel," why despoil it with a tram and restaurat? Does the Delicate Arch have these things?

Perhaps the government didn't back earlier plans to "revitalize" the area because it doesn't make any fiscal sense. IF the project was worth it the investors should be able to be found with out soliciting tax money and tax payers.

I have dealt with Brady Harper in the past. He is a nut job!

I went to the website to learn more.....not working.I was thinking of donating.When we visit UT,I miss the Falls.

A natural beauty should be left that--natural. I enjoy the view of the falls without a tram running up and down in front of it or commercial businesses selling sno-cones and cotton candy at the base. The avalanche and fires that shut down these kind of operations are a godsend. What should happen? The county or the state could pony up the 3 million dollar asking price and buy the property and turn it into a state monument to protect it from all of these people trying to make a profit off of it.

"Bridal Veil Falls to rise from the ashes."
The falls are the one constant. They don't need a tram and a restaurant.

Restore it? That is exactly what Mother Nature did, removing the unsightly aggregation of assorted buildings and shacks that had been thrown up around the place. I was delighted when the avalanche erased much of it, and only wished that the rest of the detritus would be hauled off. I've since left Utah, but didn't mind reading that a fire took care of some of the remaining trash. I can only surmise that it improved the scenery. For all I am sorry about the financial loss it represented for someone, I can't help but think it was a mistake to begin with, and would be an even bigger mistake to resurrect. Do the world a favor and stop "improving" nature. Leave it as is.

I don't know if I should donate $99 because odds are with our fiscally responsible legislators (mind the sarcasm), I'll have to pay much more than that in new taxes! If this is a great investment it wouldn�t have turned into a garbage dump in the first place! I�ll join with the previous comment and pay $99 to have the junk removed from there.

150 plus years ago, H.D.Thoreau offered the cogent offering: "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone."
I'm very famiiar with Bridal Veil Falls and view it as a treasure. Personally, I'd pay $99 as
collective pot, to placate the owners and leave the
falls just as they are. NO CABLE, NO STRUCTURES atop or bottom. Just natural, with a natural look and feel. Clean the debris and area up and simply let the public look and feel the wonder. That's enough! Personally I'm amazed at the insensitivity many have when it comes to natural zones. Owners, shift your mindset please.

These guys have a lot of nerve to ask for donations for their private venture.

THE FALLS SHOULD BE CONDEMNED AND MADE A NATIONAL MONUMENT... AND LEFT ALONE TO BE ENJOYED BY ALL FOR GENERATIONS TO COME!

Can anybody think of another business where the owners ask for donations? Sounds great for the business owner but why would anybody consider donating? What's in it for me?

"I have a business idea! Send me your donations so I can start my business!"

I'm not sure if this amounts to arrogance or stupidity. I think it must be both!

As with others who have commented, I would be happy to donate $99 or more to buy the land from the Grow family, clean up the human debris, and make it an undeveloped public park. Trails yes, resort, please don't! The falls are a treasure that deserves to be left alone! Besides, why develop in an area that is so prone to avalanches?