(St. George, UT)  –  Visitors to Utah’s national parks spent an awful lot of money in the state in 2016.  A report from the National Park Service released yesterday revealed the more than 14-million visitors to the parks last year spent more than half-a-billion dollars on hotels and restaurants.  All told, visitors spent about one-point-one-billion-dollars in the Beehive State, according to the N-P-S report. Â