“It’s actually in pretty reasonable shape,” Sommer said. “(Visitation) has been on par with what we’d generally see with the snow we’ve had.”All of which raises the philosophical question: If a tourist sleds in the forest, and there’s no trash left behind, did it really happen? Sommer and Maggie Twomey, the city’s sustainability event coordinator, both credit the dumpsters that the city’s sanitation department put at strategic popular snowplay spots in preparation for the winter onslaught. {{featured_button_text}}“It’s not that there’s not trash, but it seems so far it hasn’t been at the levels of years past,” Sommer said. I know that with the pandemic, people are going outside more, but I’ve also noticed an uptick in folks wanting to help keep the areas clean.

Source: Daily Sun January 06, 2021 12:11 UTC