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Details of a judge’s visit to disputed southern Utah routes are being kept quiet — except a plan to ride UTVs through land that’s closed to motorized vehicles

Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune May 9, 2009 ATV'ers drive along the Paria River as counter-protestors at the "Picnic With a Purpose" watch in the foreground during a 2009 ride protesting BLM road closures in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The 22-mile route along the Paria, which is closed to motorized use, is among 15 "bellwether" routes in Kane County that a federal judge plans to tour this month as he prepares for a trial that could resolve Utah state officials' disputed claims to 14,000 routes across public lands.