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Tie Fork Rest Area

27 Thursday Sep 2018

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Railroad, Rest Areas, spanish fork canyon, Tie Fork, utah, utah county

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The town of Tucker was located near a sharp curve at the bottom of a 5% grade along U.S. Route 6. In 2009, the Utah Department of Transportation closed and buried the Tucker rest area to build a safer alignment, with a banked curve and reduced grade. In 2010, the department dedicated a replacement rest area about 2 miles downstream from Tucker (mile post 202). The structure was named the Tie Fork Rest Area after the side canyon where it was located. The replacement rest area was designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot to honor the town, including a replica roundhouse and non-functional steam locomotive built by Original Creations of Carbonville, Utah. The buildings were designed by the Archiplex Group of Salt Lake City. The rest area was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in the state of Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. It is also one of the busiest non-freeway rest areas in the state.

The rest area was officially opened on 16 Aug 2010 and is supported financially by Carbon, Emery, Grand, and Utah counties, as well as the Manti-La Sal National Forest and Utah State Parks (Division of Utah State Parks and Recreation). Each of the sponsors have provided interpretive displays at the rest area and share the estimated annual $17,000 cost of maintenance.

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Williams & Powell Ranch

27 Thursday Sep 2018

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Williams & Powell Ranch
Homesteaded 1885

Original homestead at this site by Simeon Comfort & Edith Hannah Cornaby Powell.
Powell children:
Edith Amelia P. “Sackett”
Simeon James P.
Hannah Caroline P. “Williams”
Samuel March P.
Alma J. P.

William T. & Hannah C. P. Williams acquired the original property along with other property totaling 5,000 acres in the Tie Fork and South Side of Canya, include ranch homes at min and west canyon.

Williams children born or reared here:

 Edith Last W. “Robertson”  Roth Amelia W.
 Ann Rees W. “Twin-Died in Infancy”  Grace Emily W. “Jacobsen”
 Thomas Cornaby W. “died in Infancy”  Dora C. W. “Died in Infancy”
 Allen Berry W.  Grant Griffiths W.
David Clark W.  Doris Pearl W. “Died in Infancy”
Samuel Coraby W.  Hannah Willett W. ” Kelly-Reisner”

Monument erected 1980.

Located at the Tie Fork Rest Area.

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Tie Fork

15 Thursday Dec 2016

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Geocaching, Hiking, spanish fork canyon, Tie Fork, utah, utah county

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Up exploring Tie Fork, off Spanish Fork Canyon with Brian Walker.  We were going for a geocache our friend Russ had hidden.

We went against the Russ’s advice thinking we found a better way (and we still think we did ) but had a couple of obstacles along the way…

The first was those silly beavers who built their pond right at a road crossing, it looked a lot deeper then it was and scared us off at first until we decided to really check by wading out into it, it turned out to be okay and we drove through it.

The main problem was when the road became a 4-wheeler trail we kept going, and kept going and going as it got narrower and narrower, we finally came around a corner and stopped because it got really really narrow, but the thing is, where we stopped we were tilted to the left pretty bad and sliding down further every time we tried to move forward or backwards… and with too much sliding we would end up rolling off the side and all the way down to the river below.

We got out and tried to figure a way out of what I had gotten us into, I really didn’t want to roll my Jeep down a mountain and was very worried. For some reason ( maybe just to help us… ) there was a top shell of an iProvo truck in the creek there… we got 2×4’s and plywood from it, some dead trees and rocks, some dirt dug up using an Ammo Can for a shovel.

THE SPIRIT OF MACGYVER LIVES ON is what Brian said when we got our makeshift road built out of wood and rocks and then it was time to drive on it and hope we built it strong enough, well… we did. All is well.

We hiked the 2 miles from there to the cache and WOW… what an amazing place, I’ve never seen anything like it before! The pictures do not give it justice at all.

We saw elk, we saw bear scat, and we enjoyed a nice 4 mile round trip hike on a beautiful day.

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