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Show Utah's Dbde Mild summers, warm winters The southwest corner of Utah's Color Country was named Dixie by Mormon pioneers because of its warm summers and mild winters. Once a cotton and mulberry silk growing center, it is now Utah's Palm Springs, center of a large area abounding with recreational resources, notably Zion National Park, Snow Canyon State Park and Gunlock Lake State Recreation area. St. George itself is a must for the sight-seeing vacationer. ' A good first stop is the old brick courthouse dating to 1866, which now houses the chamber of commerce. Behind it is the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum. A short distance away is the restored winter home of Brigham Young. The Mormon temple, another interesting stop, stands 175 feet high, an architectural marvel of hand-quarried sandstone. Not to be missed, either, is Dixie College campus. Golfers will find four championship courses-Dixie courses-Dixie Red Hills, Lava Hills, Bloomington Hills and Bloomington Country Club. The city conducts a summerlong program of recreation for all ages, including in-cluding swimming, games, athletics and crafts. Dixie is many interesting places. Remains of an old cotton mill and gin are to be seen at Washington. Santa Clara is distinguished by the old home of Jacob Hamblin, pioneer Mormon scout and peacemaker among the Indians. It was built in 1862. The Gunlock reservoir and State Park, named for Gunlock Hamblin, Jacob's brother, provides boating, fishing, water skiing and camping. Snow Canyon, a favorite location of Hollywood movie makers, near the town of Ivins, is noted for its spectacular spec-tacular vermillion cliffs, extinct volcano cones, reflected outcroppings of Navajo sandstone and fields of black, basaltic lava. It contains a modern campground. cam-pground. The oldest LDS chapel still in use, built in 1868, is located in Pine Valley, reached by U18 north of St. George through Veyo and Central. There are three Dixie National Forest campgrounds and a picnic site at Pine Valley reservoir. Horse trails lead to the 10,000 foot heights of the Pine Valley mountains. Enterprise reservoir is popular for boating and fishing. Silver Reef was a rambunctious ram-bunctious mining town of the late 1860's where a mother lode of silver was found in the sandstone. The old Wells Fargo building is still intact. |