Growth in a Small Remote Tourist Town

Trying to find a sustainable sweet spot in a community that depends upon visitors.

Looking down on the Moab Valley from the Moab Rim. Photo by author.

If you want to see how the act of observation changes the character of the object being observed on a macro scale, Moab, Utah is a good place to start. For both the long-time locals and people like me who visited for decades before moving here, the changes the…