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Show COOL RETREAT Crystal clear mountain lakes in picturesque alpine settings make the green plateaus of southwestern Utah inviting in the hot summer months. And besides, the fishing's good. Southern Utah Calls Tourists With Scenery and Shakespeare mous Rim Road, called the most colorful 20 miles in the world," and rightly so because from its vistas you can look out over the fantastic formations of nature in a riot of colors. On Highway 89 you may want to stop at Orderville, the location of the "United Order," a bold Mormon experiment in communal commu-nal living. The tour continues to Kanab, the movie colony of southern Utah, the home of movie stars on location for western films on nearby desert country. If you wish you can continue on High-!way High-!way 89 to Page, Ariz., and the (Editor's note: This is another in a series of "See Utah" articles designed to better acquaint our Utahns with their state. Stories have been prepared by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. Each week a different sector of the state will be featured.) Cool mountain greenery, a Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City and tours of two National Parks and a National Monument the thrill of seeing one of nature's na-ture's most colorful spectacles, the vast, multi-hue amphitheatre which the Indians of yesteryear named "circle of painted cliffs." The alpine country which surrounds sur-rounds Cedar Breaks affords a spectacular view and is lush with cool green mountain meadows, parks, streams and lakes where large trout wait for the angler's lure. are things you and your family can enjoy in the heat of midsummer. mid-summer. The suggested tour begins at the town of Beaver, verdant city on U.S. 91 in the valley between Mineral Mountains and Tushar Plateau (commonly called the Beaver Mountains). Traveling south, you will pass through another pioneer community, com-munity, Parowan, first permanent perma-nent settlement in southern Utah founded by the Mormons in 1851. Cedar City, the next town on the tour, is the largest city and "commercial capital" of southern Utah, located beneath the Mark-agunt Mark-agunt Plateau and Cedar Breaks National Monument. There are . ji I MAP OF I IctartI SCENIC TOUR BEAVER KEY ll SIDE TOUR ) WAIN TOUR 'x'yShlM BREAKS J'1' ; L7I0N iwvaS L CANYON (d ,h InaTL- "Kf Jl ' NATL. v9 yyPARK m park ST GEORGE KANAB ft. " ' H I --'GLEN 1 1 CANYON J0 0AM GRAND CANYON if I NATL. PARK I construction site of Glen Canyon Dam, one of the world's largest dams now being built. The hour and one-half drive is well worth it and U. S. Bureau of Reclamation which is building build-ing the dam provides guides to tell tourists all about the big project. From Kanab to Zion National Park is a short, pleasant drive. At Zions you will see some of the most beautiful scenery in the world, equally as impressive as Bryce. The tour continues to St. George, colorful settlement oin the southwestern tip of Utah, once the winter home of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young and known affectionately affec-tionately by local persons as the little town of New Harmony, is the famous Kolob Fingers of Zion Canyon, formed by the tributaries of the Virgin River which carved Zion. many line tourist accommodations accommoda-tions in Cedar City, as several major highways intersect there. Beginning July 2 and continuing continu-ing to July 14 students at the College of Southern Utah and local townsfolk will stage the annual Shakespeare Festival in an outdoor theatre as the CSU. Three different plays written by the famous 16th Century English Eng-lish dramatist will be presented Monday through Saturday, in the two week period, beginning each night at 8:30. The repertoire of the well rehearsed re-hearsed cast will consist of "The Merchant of Venice," "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shew." By staying in Cedar City three days you can see all three of the plays on consecutive nights, adding add-ing pleasing variety to your tour. A stop at Cedar Breaks National Na-tional Monument will give you From Cedar Breaks you can continue across the Plateau via Panguitch Lake or retrace your steps to Highway 14 and continue con-tinue your journey via Navajo Lake. Both drives are scenic and cool. Both traverse sections of Dixie National Forest with picnic pic-nic areas and campgrounds along the way. The town of Panguitch on the Sevier River is the county seat of Garfield County, named after an Indian word meaning "big fish." Tourist facilities in Panguitch Pan-guitch and nearby Hatch are excellent ex-cellent and give travelers an ideal jumping off place to Bryce Canyon National Park. There are also excellent motel, lodge and camping facilities at Bryce. Temperatures at this time of the year at Bryce are pleasant, and you can travel over the fa- capital of Utah's Dixie. St. George has great historical interest. The gleaming white Mormon Temple is located here and in addition to the winter home of Brigham Young, two notable museums and other historic his-toric sites and monuments are in St. George. In nearly Santa Clara is the rock home built by Jacob Hamblin, famous frontier-man frontier-man and peacemaker with the Indians. You havet a choice in traveling north from St. George. The most direct route in via Interstate 15 to Cedar City. The other, however, how-ever, while longer and circuitous takes in a broad sweep of interesting inter-esting points, including Dixie State Park, the old ghost town of Ironton and the Pine Valley Mountains. One interesting thing to look for on Interstate 15, near the |