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.
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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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SKUTUMPAH ROAD, GRAND STAIRCASE ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT
Skutumpah Road captures the beauty of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument with its rugged 34 mile dirt mile that winds past some great slot canyons. When you pass over a narrow wooden bridge at the Bull Valley Gorge trailhead, you might want to look around and see if you are able to spot the old jeep truck down in a crevice. Also look for Willis Creek and Lick Wash, both wonderful slot canyons. This trip will be an extended long day.…
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PAROWAN GAP ROCK ART / AUTUMN EQUINOX
The Parowan Gap is an incredible area with a plethora of prehistorical and historical values. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Parowan Gap includes many petroglyphs of native people, markings from Spanish explores and 19th century pioneers. The area today is still used for livestock grazing. The petroglyphs found at the Gap area speculated to have any possible meanings depending on who interprets them. The autumn equinox takes place earlier in the week, but will still be…
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