War against graffiti seems a losing battle in Utah’s scenic Little Cottonwood Canyon, but armies of volunteers keep fighting it
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Michel Nebeker works to cover up or clean up graffiti that has proliferated in lower Little Cottonwood Canyon, where vandals, often wielding cans of fluorescent-colored spray paint, have covered granite faces, trees and structures. The vandalism is particularly apparent along the Temple Quarry Trail and the creek at the Moon Rock swimming hole and former pavilion site. Volunteers using donated equipment and solvents spend thousands of hours removing the paint from the rocks only to see graffiti return to the same faces or on rock nearby.

War against graffiti seems a losing battle in Utah’s scenic Little Cottonwood Canyon, but armies of volunteers keep fighting it

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