NEW Sign-on letter to Make Moab Quiet Again

We have a NEW sign-on letter!

Noisy UTVs are ruining Moab, for residents and also for the large majority of visitors. UTVs are making it impossible to experience quiet in one's own home, on a trail, or anywhere at all near Moab. Data collected at the Sand Flats Recreation Area fee booth March-August 2021 indicates that rental and tour UTVs make up over 2/3 of the users of Sand Flats Recreation!

We can fight back and regain some peace and quiet if we pressure local officials to do their jobs and make sure that UTV noise does not ruin our town for the vast majority who do not ride UTVs.

Sign on to the letter below to make your voice heard.
Do you live in the Moab area, or are you a Moab visitor?
I live in the Moab area (including Spanish Valley, Castle Valley, and northern San Juan County)
I visit Moab and I'm concerned about the increase in noise
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About Us

Make Moab Quiet Again is a group of Moab-area residents who want to restore quiet to our community and neighborhoods. We are urging our City and County officials to take significant and meaningful steps to reduce UTV noise to preserve our quality of life. Local officials need to know that residents want them to take bold actions to deal with the increasing UTV noise problem.

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To: Moab City Council and Mayor

Growth of UTV-related tourism and recreation in Moab and Grand County has dramatically increased noise pollution in our residential neighborhoods. The noise issue has caused an outpouring of citizen complaints to both City and County governments.

Moab residents have endured the negative impacts of UTV noise on our quality of life, health, and well-being for too long.

We request that Moab City Council prioritize quiet neighborhoods over noisy tourism and amend the City’s business license ordinance to require trailering of all rental and tour UTVs to and from the trailheads.

Data collected at the Sand Flats Recreation Area fee booth in March-August 2021 indicates that rental and tour UTVs make up over 2/3 of the users of Sand Flats Recreation Area. Rental and tour UTVs travel through our residential neighborhoods to and from SFRA trailheads. Thus, tour and rental UTVs are a big part of Moab's UTV noise problem. Moab City can and should regulate these businesses so that they do not cause noise pollution in residential neighborhoods.

We support our elected officials and residents working together to draft local ordinances for UTV rentals and tours.

To: Moab City Council and Mayor

We love to visit Moab, but we don't love it as much as we used to. The rapid increase in UTV noise is making Moab and the surrounding landscapes a much less pleasant place to visit.

A very large fraction of UTVs on Moab's streets are tours or rentals. Please use your authority to regulate businesses to require that this large class of UTVs uses trailers to access trailheads.

Most visitors come to the Moab area to experience the spectacular scenery in a relatively quiet way: car touring and sightseeing in national parks and public lands, hiking, biking, and floating rivers. Most visitors also enjoy lodging and dining in Moab. Over the last few years, all of these activities have become less enjoyable because of ever-increasing levels of UTV noise. Please don't let a noisy minority of visitors ruin Moab for the rest of us!

If Moab becomes known as the "noisy UTV capital of the world," we and other visitors will stop coming. Please don't let that happen.