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Show I r i THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1962 Pcge Nina "TTF'"'" w II V IX W.iIUWI pi- - L: - Lt 111 Meet the Blanding-- Frontier Days Queens and Princesses. Left to right, Anna Marie Ketchum, Barbara Jean Morris, Janet Sipe, Jennie Palmer and Sharon Shumway. Girls will reign over the Blanding festivities. ! 10 million years old, give or take a few years. Sipapu or Agusta is the highest of the bridges standing 222 feet above the can-yon floor. Kachina or Carolina is the most massive, 107 feet thick at its narrowest point. The traveler at this juncture has a choice as to which direction he can take on the tour. He may continue northwest to the Hite Ferry on the Colorado River and then to Hanksville, on State Highway 24 which leads to Capitol Reef National Monument. Or he may retrace his steps to Highway 47 and continue south to Monument Valley. The traveler also should be warned that the road to Hanks-ville is rough and slow traveling, although passable for the ordi-nary automobile. Between Blanding and Sah Juan is Hovenweep National Monument, a cluster of ancient Pueblo Indian ruins. Continuing south on Highway 47, you will pass through the town of Bluff, first settled by the Mormon "Hole-in-the-roc- k" pioneers in 1880. These settlers crossed the rugged terrain com-ing to San Juan County in cov-ered wagons. The traveler can see the area west of Highway 47. The tour veers southwest from Bluff, passing through the town of Mexican Hat. Just before this community, however, the trav-eler should drive a few miles off the highway to see the fa-mous "Goosenecks of the San Juan," a series of twisting, me-andering bends in the San Juan River. From Mexican Hat the high-way passes into the Navajo In-dian Reservation and famous Monument Valley, known for its solitary buttes, fiery sunsets and weathered Indian faces. The tour continues south through Arizona to Tuba City and then north the Glen Canyon Dam and back into Utah. Owachomo Natural Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument near Blanding is considered to be among the oldest in the world about 10 million years old. I i.i . v , 7 C I Frontier Days and Attractions Feature Four Corners Area moab .; St ; Vy '? ri . "f MONTiyao j hitet. WTItiu. r,':,?,. if V J5lWDli(5 S I MAP OF J 1. SCENIC j piBACITY TouR j (Editor's note: This is another in a series of "See Utah" articles designed to better acquaint Utahns with their state. The stories have been prepared by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. Each week a different sector of the state will be fea-tured.) A good, old-fashion- ed 'Fron-tier Days Celebration" in Bland-ing July 4 to 7 will add color and pageantry to a suggested tour of southeastern Utah this sum-mer. This time of year is ideal for touring the breath-takin- g spec-tacles of San Juan County and the famous "Four Corner Area," the only spot in the United States where four states meet. A stop in Blanding will give you a chance to participate in a wide variety of "Frontier Days" events. Included will be a parade, nightly pageant, cowboy barbecue, air show, square dance jamboree, go-ca- rt races, rodeo, art show and other events. If you pass through Price on you way south, you may want to stop at the Prehistoric Museum, where dinosaur bones, fossils and ancient Indian exhibits are on display. South and east the suggested tour begins on U.S. Highway 160 south of Crescent Junction. Your first stop can be Arches National Monument, world renowned wonder of nature. The beautiful arches have been sculptured in a myriad of shapes and figures over eons of the earth's geologi-cal history. Another interesting and breath-takin- g spectacle in the vicinity of Arches is 'Fisher Towers, a remarkable group of pinnacles and spires towering 800 to 1,700 feet into the sky. A side trip to Dead Horse Point State Park is well worth the extra time. The view of the Colorado River from this point offers perhaps the most sensa-tional canyon panorama in Utah. The area received its name from pioneers because a herd of wild horses once perished of thirst there, within full view of the Colorado River which winds through the canyon thousands of feet below. The tour continues south through Moab and into San Juan County . . . into a land rich in scenic beauty, a land that was once considered among Amer-ica's most remote and wild ter-ritories. Just south of LaSal Junction, an improved dirt road leads east to the famed Canyon Lands of the Colorado, site of a proposed new National Park. The road is passable by auto-mobile as far as the Dugout Ranch, but beyond that point guides and four-whe- el drive ve-hicles are advised. Under no circumstances should an auto-mobile attempt to go beyond this point. A list of guides and back-countr- y tours is available from the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council, State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah. Among the most impressive spectacles of Canyonlands is "The Needles," a section of beautifully eroded red sandstone pinnacles standing several hundred feet in the air. Returning to Highway 160 the tour continues south once again, passing through Monti-cell- o, colorful county seat of San Juan County. At this point High-way 160 branches east to Cortez, Colorado, and Mesa Verde Na-tional Park. However, the suggested tour continues south on State High-way 47, a fine paved road past the Abajo Mountains to Bland-ing, site of the Frontier Days Celebration. Blanding is the gate-way to Natural Bridges National Monument, and there are many fine tourist accommodations here. Natural Bridges National Monument is about 40 miles west of Blanding on State Road 95. This road is paved for the first few miles but is dirt graded most of the way though easily passable for automobiles. The monument consists of three beautiful natural bridges, carved by the elements of nature over eons. These astounding won-ders differ from the arches in that they were formed mostly by the action of streams rather than by wind and weather erosion. 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