April 2019
APRIL 25 – RAINBOW CANYON & CALIENTE, NEVADA
The Rainbow Canyon Scenic Drive is a relaxing and enjoyable ride on a paved road through Rainbow Canyon, a deep canyon located just south of the town of Caliente, Nevada. What makes Rainbow Canyon an enjoyable drive isn't the tall mountains, but instead the colored rock and interesting rock formations along the road. Throughout the drive, the traveler will see large formations of red rock and rock formations that defy easy description.
Find out more »APRIL 26 – BLOOMINGTON CAVE – KYLE VOYLES
Bloomington Cave is the most extensive and well-known cave in the St George area. It is a large tectonic cave and has at least six different levels and a maze of passages that are generally narrow, often with steeply dipping floors. The surveyed length of the cave is currently 1.39 miles (7,340 feet), making it the fifth longest cave in Utah. Kyle Voyles is an outdoor recreation planner and avid spelunker who knows the cave well, and will be describing how…
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MAY 23 – PINTO TOWNSITE & PAGE RANCH, DIXIE NATIONAL FOREST
The small hamlet of Pinto, with its lush meadows and clear stream of good water, was a natural stopping place on the Old Spanish Trail. Another historical stopping point along what was once a major freighting and travel route was Page Ranch. The ranch house served regularly as an informal hotel for travelers and as a boarding house for men working in the nearby iron ore mines.
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JUNE 27 – TASSI RANCH, GRAND CANYON -PARASHANT NATIONAL MONUMENT
North of the Grand Canyon in the Mojave Desert lies Tassi Ranch, approximately 200 acres of creosote bush ranchland in Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. Today, the remnants of the early twentieth century ranch can be found under the shade of an oasis of cottonwood trees, fed by the Tassi Springs near the center of the ranchland. The adaptations the ranchers undertook as they worked to establish agriculture in an extreme, remote desert are still visible in the landscape today. High clearance…
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