A Summary of the Utah Recreational Use Statute: Limitation of Utah Private Landowners' Liability When Providing Public Recreation on Privately Owned Land

private landowners from liability when they grant free recreation access to their land. These laws are referred to as recreation-use-statutes and are drafted along the lines of the Council of State Governments Model Act (1965) (Wright et al., 2002). The Model Act is based on the idea that “landowners protected from liability will allow recreational use of their land, thus reducing state expenditures to provide such areas” (Wright et al., 2002). Utah’s Recreational Use Statute was enacted in 1971 (Utah Code § 57-14).