Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-08-17 | Page 4 | A Mountain Road

t A MOUNTAIN ROAD THE people of Utah are indebted to the federal federal fed- fed L eral forest service for a road through one of the most beautiful sections of mountain scenery in the world You motor from Salt Lake up Parleys Parley's canyon canyon canyon can can- yon and around to Heber where the road branches branche's branches to the east through Daniels canyon This is a part of an important transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental highway and the canyon stretch leads through a scenic wonderland Coming out at the summit the highway leads to Strawberry lake where at the southwest southwest southwest south south- west side a dirt road wanders off past fishing fishing fishing fish fish- ing camps the east portal of the Strawberry tunnel and then up and up by easy grade over the mountain pierced by the tunnel Panorama after panorama of mountains in all directions the deep purple of wooded canyons groves of quaking asp and pine pine pine-a a succession of rare pictures from the top 0 o othe the world world and and then the road dips down Until until un un- til it passes passes' the outlet of the Strawberry tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel and follows the course of a roaring stream downward to Spanish Fork canyon emerging just above the old Castilla springs resort Out of Spanish Fork canyon the motorist reaches the state highway and turns north to Salt Lake thus completing a circuit of wonders This trip is little known but more travel upon the tile road will speed the day of its widening and its general popularity It Isone Isone is isone one of the tile rarest treats in the tile west