The park’s current visitor center was built in 1996 and represented the first phase of the project. In the decades since, however, the planned second phase never materialized due to a lack of funding.
The Utah Division of State Parks and the Friends of Antelope Island hosted a kickoff event Friday officially announcing the development plans to stakeholders and media, who were sitting mere feet away from where the new building is supposed to be built.
this year, encouraged the Legislature to allocate $1 million to the project in 2021 and another $12 million this year. The money is enough to completely redesign the existing visitor center, which will serve as an “education center” going forward and the addition of a new building that will add thousands of square feet to the center.
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