Show TAD IAD PLANNED 0 0 o REACH NEW q SCENIC AREAS lite te Parks Service tudy W Wayne a e ReI Region Region Re Re- I t gion Highway f r By JOHN JQHN U. U TERRELL the tentative plans and hopes commission and ie e 6 state road national parks service are carout carout car- car and lit- lit out outa a hitherto unseen known area of f wide extent in southern part of the state may I pend pen d to travel by a to park highway t t- t present there is no highway tourists and natives ma may maych ch h h this isolated section of the which lies Ues east of Zion Na- Na oal 1 park and only a part of the lous ous ous Wayne Vayne wonderland may be bed ber r hed ched d by automobile The prod pro- pro cd d route would pass through these scenic areas C. C c q CL Wright engineer of st te road commission recent recent- u lIned two possible courses for I new highway Sometime ago 1 Wright spent three weeks go- go over the Country with an e eye e finding a feasible passage At present time investigators for parks service are seek- seek r t to trace a way through the gh uninhabited lands bordering Colorado river Possible Routes e project it can already be seen experts would fall faU within the class A complete survey ld Id necessarily ha have hata e to be made ore construction could begin and ch of the territory has never nevern never nevern n eyed through a transit transiL e two possible routes as outa out- out d a 1 by Mr Wright are arc as follows th i its purpose the connection of sa i Verde National park the theral ural ral bridges Wayne Vayne wonderland ce canyon and Zion National ks the road would enter the theof te of Utah west of Dove Creek 0 o. to Monticello to Blanding Elk Ridge through the Bears Bear's Bearss rs rs' rs s to the the National Bridges Na- Na al al' monument t. t This part would over over an established road but the natural natura bridges two routes ome me possible i q White wiit Creek Va Way o c te e No 1 would be laid out outa n a White creek crossing the orado river Driver near the old post Ice ce of Hyte This is the only d possible up or down stream many ninny miles It was for this rea- rea that the site became the head- head of the famous old settler settlers s Hyte rom rom the crossIn crossing the proposed i goes up North wash or yon to the foot of the Henry Then it turns toward north north to Hanksville Fruita Loa Fish Lake Junction er Creek Antimony Widtsoe and tyce at which point a main high high- y is reached oute cute No 2 goes southwest from bridges through the Clay hills i i the the Rock famous Tinon on pioneer crossing near the uth of ot the Escalante river then thenis ns is northwest to Escalante passover pass pass- over the Escalante desert join- join the first proposed route at the entire length of both tes is over solid rock sand- sand lit ine of a a. hundred colors r North Road Favored or d t the present time the north ute te is favored as it takes in more the scenic areas of ot the state ever r the other road would pass rough trough a country of amazing for for- fo forest est lands canyons of ot men depths and brightly ed Bed deser deserts There is ie is no passable gon igon trail through this area of proximately miles mUM in length d 4 1 width A road through it would wouldn en enone n n none one of the most remote sec sec- Ins ns 15 of the nation and make avail- avail pie l Ie one of the most beautiful areas the the west following wing the report of the nanal nanal na- na nal onal park investigators the road hopes a joint meeting ay y be held for the purpose of de- de the best course of action I obtaining money to finance the reject |