24 Wednesday May 2017
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From Provo‘s Website:
Exchange Park is a long park that follows the Provo River and the Provo River Parkway Trail. Relax and enjoy the sounds of the river while enjoying a picnic with your family and then go on a leisurely walk along the trail.
The park has:
60 parking lot spaces
1 playground
1 volleyball court
1 horseshoe pit
Drinking fountain available at restrooms
16 acres
Other parks in Provo are listed here.
There is a cool painted tunnel under the road at the north end.
24 Wednesday May 2017
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Legacy Park in Alpine, one of Alpine City’s Parks and the location of Alpine Days.
The Fort Mountainville DUP Marker is in this park.
24 Wednesday May 2017
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Parks in Alpine, Utah.
Beck’s Hill Park
Burgess Park
Creekside Park
Healey Park
Lambert Park
Legacy Park
Moyle Park
Peterson Park
Rachael McTeer Park
Rodeo Grounds (Lambert Park)
Silverleaf Park
Smooth Canyon Park
16 Tuesday May 2017
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Madame Tussauds Las Vegas is a wax museum located in the Las Vegas Strip at The Venetian Las Vegas casino. The attraction opened in 1999, becoming the first Madame Tussauds venue to open in the United States. It features over 100 wax figures of famous celebrities, film and TV characters, athletes, musicians and Marvel superheroes, as well a 4D movie theatre. Subsequent Madame Tussauds venues opened in the U.S in New York City in 2000, Washington D.C. in 2007, and Hollywood, California in 2009.
15 Monday May 2017
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Utah Lake Posts:
Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo-Orem metropolitan area. The lake’s only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt Lake. Evaporation accounts for 42% of the outflow of the lake, which leaves the lake slightly saline. The elevation of the lake is legally at 4,489 feet above sea level. If the lake elevation goes any higher, the pumps and gates on the Jordan River are left open.(From Wikipedia)
12 Friday May 2017
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North of Moab near the entrance to Arches National Park is a huge, steep hill of sand that usually has people hiking up to roll/fall/jump down. It’s a good place to stop and let everyone get sandy and playful after a long drive.
12 Friday May 2017
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The Indian Blanket pictograph is 16 feet wide and 4 feet high.
The legend says that many years ago a group of Paiute Indians passed through Clear Creek Canyon on the way to their winter camping area. While they were in the canyon, a recently born baby of a young woman died and was buried near here. During the winter, the mother was troubled by the thought of her baby being alone in the cold. The following spring she returned to the burial site. Nearby, she painted a blanket on a rock face so the baby could use the blanket to keep warm during cold winters at this lonely place.
Sheep Shelter
See other sites in Fremont Indian State Park here and their page about this site here.
12 Friday May 2017
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Clear Creek Canyon, Exploring, Fremont Indian State Park, Fremont Indians, Jedediah Strong Smith, Mountain Men, Old Spanish Trail, Sevier, Sevier County, Spanish Trail, utah
Jedediah Strong Smith
“Diah”, as his friends called him, stood 6’1″. He was a religious man and abstained from drinking, smoking or swearing. Unlike many mountain men, he was literate and carried a Bible and kept a journal. Smith is credited with blazing the western half of the Old Spanish Trail, a 1,230 mile trade route between Santa Fe and California.
See other sites in Fremont Indian State Park here and other posts related to Jedediah here.
11 Thursday May 2017
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Candy Mountain Express
(Big Rock Candy Mountain Bike Trail)
Along the Sevier River between Sevier and Big Rock Candy Mountain they have turned the old railroad grade into a nice biking/walking trail.
It is a gorgeous canyon and would be an awesome easy ride.
11 Thursday May 2017
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Clear Creek Canyon, Fremont Indian State Park, historic, Historic Buildings, Historic Homes, Historic Markers, Sevier, Sevier County
Joseph Lott and his family built a cabin on this site in the 1880s and were among the first pioneers to settle in Clear Creek Canyon.
Their 160 acre homestead extended through the canyon bottom and included orchards and pastures.
Joe, his wife Merua, and their six children loved here for nearly thirty hears. The Lott cabin stood until the 1970s.
This pioneer cabin is typical of those built by Utah settlers in the mid-nineteenth century. It is not known who originally built this cabin, but Bernard Barnson, his wife Hannah, and several of their children lived in the two-room structure from 1903 to 195 in Junction, Utah. In 1996, the descendants of Bernard and Hannah Barnson donated this cabin to Fremont Indian State Park.
