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appropriate facilities for this prescription area. Fire grates, picnic tables, vault toilets, and water could be provided, but no electricity or sewer connections would be available. Size restrictions could be placed on RVs and trailer-campers. Maintenance. Activities could include maintaining roads and facilities (cleaning, painting, repair, pumpout, etc.), hardening sites, providing for visitor convenience and comfort, protecting resources, and restoring areas disturbed by human activity. Developed This management prescription includes all major park development required to serve visitors and meet the needs of management. It encompasses areas where park development and/or intensive use substantially alter the natural environment or the setting of historically significant resources. This is an area where major visitor facilities, including commercial service facilities, provide an experience that is facility dependent (e.g., campgrounds, visitor centers, marinas). The sights and sounds of boats, vehicles, and people predominate as does the experience that is tied to traffic along the major road corridors of the park. This area would accommodate the highest levels of use in the park. Visitor activities would be fairly structured and directed and involve little challenge. Support services and facilities could be extensive. Visitor contacts and contacts with NPS and concession personnel could be frequent in this area, especially during peak visitor periods. Contacts could be less frequent during the off-peak season but might still be common compared with other management areas. There could be little or no opportunity for 56 solitude. Relatively intensive resource management activity may be required to mitigate impacts associated with high levels of visitor use and development. Although natural processes would be perpetuated wherever possible, a high degree of perturbation and human intrusion to the natural environment could continue to be evident. I I I I Visitor Experience. This area provides for the primary experience of most visitors, introducing them to many of the park's significant resources and presenting the primary park interpretive themes. Exhibits, films and live presentations, and publications distributed at visitor centers and contact stations would be used to convey an understanding of each park and their natural and cultural resources. Interpretive trails and guided ranger tours would also be used in this area. Other orientation information would assist visitors in planning their stay in the park or region. Campgrounds would be managed under a paid permit system during the peak season. Access. Access would be easy. This area could contain both surfaced and unsurfaced roads, and all roads could be accessed by two-wheel-drive vehicles. Pedestrian access along low- to high-standard trails could allow for visitor access to a variety of environments. Hardened trails could be provided in areas around visitor centers and in other areas of high use identified to give visitors an overview and better familiarity with park resources. Barrier-free design is provided in selected areas to permit visitors with physical impairments to experience representative park settings. Natural Resource Management. The natural character of lands within this area is maintained to the greatest extent possible while accommodating high levels of use. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I