Snow Canyon State Park is near St George, Utah and is a very popular place for outdoor activities.
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Snow Canyon State Park
02 Sunday Feb 2020
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Sycamore Cove
04 Tuesday Dec 2018
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Sycamore Cove
Sycamore Cove Beach is a day-use area in Point Mugu State Park in southern Ventura County.
Fremont Indian State Park
04 Thursday May 2017
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During construction of Interstate 70, ruins from a large ancient Fremont Indian village were uncovered. This museum was built to preserve treasures from the site, including pottery, baskets and arrowheads. The ancient people decorated many nearby cliff walls with unique rock art. Spend a few hours at the museum, tour the rock art sites and then camp at nearby Castle Rock Campground.(*)
Discover artifacts, petroglyphs, and pictographs left behind by the Fremont Indians. During construction of Interstate 70, the largest known Fremont Indian village was uncovered. This museum preserves treasures from the site, including pottery, baskets, and arrowheads. Spend a day at the museum, take a hike on the trails, and then camp at nearby Castle Rock Campground or Sam Stowe Campground.(*)
The park has an a cool list of points of interest to see and learn about, I’ll gather pictures of them all here.
- Point Of Interest #1 Rim Trail
- Point Of Interest #2 Canyon of Life trail
- Point Of Interest #3 Alma Christensen trail
- Point Of Interest #4 Five Finger Ridge
- Point Of Interest #5 Parade Of Rock Art Trail
- Point Of Interest #6 Court Of Ceremonies Trail
- Point Of Interest #7 Canyon Overlook
- Point Of Interest #8 Hidden Secrets Trail
- Point Of Interest #9 Cave Of A Hundred Hands Trail
- Point Of Interest #10 Arch Of Art Trail
- Point Of Interest #11 Centennial Cabin Trail
- Point Of Interest #12 Sheep Shelter Trail
- Point Of Interest #13 Spider Woman Rock Trail
- Point Of Interest #14 Geology Trail
- Jedediah Strong Smith
- Pioneering Utah
- Sam Stowe Canyon
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Kodachrome Basin State Park
21 Saturday Jan 2017
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Evidence near the park suggests that Native Americans were the first to wander through the area. Around the turn of the 20th century, cattlemen from Cannonville and Henrieville used the basin as a winter pasture. In 1948 the National Geographic Society explored and photographed the area for a story that appeared in the September 1949 issue of National Geographic. They named the area Kodachrome Flat, after the then relatively new brand of Kodak film they used. In 1962 the area was designated a state park. Fearing repercussions from the Kodak film company for using the name Kodachrome, the name was changed to Chimney Rock State Park, but renamed Kodachrome Basin a few years later with Kodak’s permission.
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Coombs Village Anasazi State Park Museum
14 Wednesday Dec 2016
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Anasazi State Park Museum is a state park and museum in Southern Utah, United States, featuring the ruins of an ancient Anasazi village referred to as the Coombs Village Site.
The Coombs Site is the site of one of the largest Anasazi communities known to have existed west of the Colorado River. The name Anasazi, Navajo for “Ancient Enemies,” or “Enemies of Our Ancestors” describes the Pueblo culture that existed in the Four Corners area from about 1 AD to 1300 AD. This village is believed to have been occupied from 1160 AD to 1235 AD. As many as 250 people lived there.
The village is largely unexcavated, though there was a brief excavation during 1958 and 1959, conducted by the University of Utah as part of the Glen Canyon Dam Project. During that excavation, archaeologists uncovered thousands of artifacts, and discovered a community of about 90 rooms divided into two separate one-story apartment complexes. An L-shaped building has been reconstructed and can be entered into by visitors. The cluster featured open shelters for working in the shade, storage pits, and adobe pit houses large enough for five or six residents. All together, about 100 structures have been found.
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Utah Lake State Park
23 Friday Sep 2016
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Palisade State Park
23 Friday Sep 2016
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Tiny 70 acre Palisade Reservoir draws swimmers to its sandy beach and anglers year-round. The carefully landscaped park is very well maintained. Canoes and paddle boats can be rented. There is also an 18-hole golf course.
Palisade State Park & Reservoir draws swimmers, year-round anglers and non-motorized watercraft enthusiasts. There is also an 18-hole golf course, practice range, professional golf shop and snack bar. Hiking areas abound and Six-Mile Canyon provides excellent off-highway vehicle riding just outside the park.
Palisade State Park is southeast of Manti and is landscaped with trees and grass. Park facilities include 53 individual campsites, sandy beach, modern rest rooms with hot showers, group camping area and covered group-use pavilion. Canoe and paddle boat rentals are available.
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Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park
23 Friday Sep 2016
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Camp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park in Fairfield, Utah.
In 1855 Fairfield was settled by John Carson, William Carson, David Carson, William Beardshall and John Clegg. A rock fort 4 rods square was erected in 1856-57. In 1860 the population, including soldiers, was 7,000, this being Utah’s third largest city.
Camp Floyd, adjoining Fairfield on the South and West, was established July 4, 1858 by BVT. Brig. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and the Utah Expeditionary Forces numbering about 3,000 men. Col. Phillip St. George Cooke succeeded in command March 1, 1860, changing the name to Ft. Crittenden February 6, 1861. It was abandoned July 1861.
An Overland stage station established in 1859 was operated until 1868 and a Pony Express Station from April 3, 1860 to October 26, 1861. The station was 539 feet East and 210 feet North of this point.
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- Camp Floyd Cemetery
- Camp Floyd Pony Express Stop
- Col. Philip St. George Cooke (Historic Marker)
- Fairfield – Camp Floyd – Fort Crittenden (Historic Marker)
- Fairfield Stagecoach Inn
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Yuba State Park
21 Sunday Aug 2016
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Yuba Lake (technically Yuba Reservoir) is in Yuba State Park and is popular for boating, fishing and all types of watersports.
Yuba State Park got its name from the individuals who built the dam. Local farmers and ranchers had to build the dam themselves or risk losing their water rights. The men working on the structure called it the U.B. Dam. As they worked they sang a song that stated they were damned if they worked and damned if they didn’t. The phonetic sound of the reservoir’s name was eventually spelled Yuba.
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Huntington State Park
13 Wednesday Aug 2014
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We stopped by Huntington State Park, just north of Huntington, Utah.
I enjoyed the little display of 4 historic markers they had in one spot and another nearby.
The water looked fun but we had to move on, I hope to come back and play in the water some time soon.
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