Show Improve Dead Dryad Horse Point I Road Rood for 1965 Visitors Utah re residents dents and tourists heading for lor scenic Dead Horse Point State Park will find the once rough road greatly im improved proved for the 1965 season I officials of 01 the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission Commis ion sion reported today Fully fifteen miles mUes of the twenty two mile long route to the viewpoint high above the Colorado River will be hard surfaced and dust free due to efforts and expend expendi expenditures I tures by the Utah State Road Commission and the Grand County Commission State Park officials praised the joint state and county effort which will cost in instate slate state highway funds and 20 in county expenditures Road commission crews under the supervision of Quint Adair of Price have bulldozed blasted and graded grad graded ed a twenty foot wide road with adequate shoulders for fora a distance of fifteen miles from the US junction This route extending across the difficult but scenic Seven SevenMile Mile Wash reaches to the Knolls where roads branch off oft to both Dead Horse Point and Point An armor coating with oil has been placed over the fifteen fifteen fifteen teen miles and some four miles mUes has been topped with gravel Crews hope to com corn compete pete the remainder of the gravel placement in early spring after which the com corn completed completed fifteen mile mUe stretch willbe will willbe be rolled Six miles of 01 graded but road in Grand Count County and 13 miles of un surfaced road In tn San Juan Juar County wll wU remain untouched when the present project is complete However state and county officials will continue their effort to funds I for tor the remaining sector Commend jig the State Highway Dept and Grand County Commissions for their efforts on In behalf of visitors Harold P P. Fabian Chairman of the Utah State Park and Recreation Commission point pointed ed cd out that the state now has hasa a Investment in Im Improvements p at Dead Horse Point State Park These Include in elude clude a rock parapet a shel shelter shelter shelter ter rest rooms picnic area and campgrounds Despite the former lormer twenty twenty twenty ty two miles of ot dusty roads Dead Horse Point State Park has attracted visitors in the past three years he said With the fifteen miles of pavement plus the Interest Interest inter interest est aroused by thousands of additional va can be expected In n Grand and San Juan Counties Coun Counties Counties ties ties and Dead Horse Point State Park will prove a major ma major maor jor or attraction |