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Show DRAW. Ancient Indian drawon the canyon walls date back over ings 1,000 years. 9. THE WEDGE OVERLOOK. It looks down from one thousand feet above the San Rafael River offering a matchless view of redrock canyons and massive buttes 8. BUCKHORN From Highway 24, you might call this place Goblin Country. If you only saw the area around Skyline Drive, you'd probably call it Alpine Country. In Nine Mile Canyon you'd call it Ancient Indian Mural Country. But yod can see the variety in this beautiful land of Carbon and Emery counties by taking one of the following tours. Once you have, youll understand why it is called Castle Country. TOUR 1 -- ONE DINOSAUR 10. CLEVELAND-LLOYVISITOR AND CENTER. Castle QUARRY D Country was once the shoreline of a vast inland sea, where tropical forests harboured the TANK NINE MILE CANYON 2 Petroglyphs 4. GOBLIN VALLEY STATE PARK (Temple Mountain Jet.) A weird collection of sandstone gnomes and gargoyles lurk above visitors to this secluded valley. 5. HONDOO ARCH. Wild, rugged, awesome redrock arch formed in the shape of a cowboys lariat Be sure and check local road conditions 6 SAN RAFAEL SWELL. An immense, hollowed out dome with vivid buttes, gorges and canyons Much of this area is unexplored 7. ASSEMBLY HALL AND WINDOWBLIND PEAKS. Two massive landmarks. Windowblind monolith in Utah. is the largest free-star.di- PRICE AND HELPER. In downtown Price there's the prehistoric museum in City Hall, and a mining museum at City Hall in downtown Helper 1 2 NINE MILE CANYON (ON HIGHWAY A 53). stagecoach and freight route and center of the Fremont Indian culture of about 1000 A D Deserted log cabins, Indian petroglyphs and abound in the area ry picto-grap- hs GREEN RIVER. An historic river crossing and oasis of the desert Famous for Green River melons and for being the outfitting point for Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch 3 Wildhorse Butte in San Rafael Swell Castle Gate "Thunder Lizards of the past. The forests became the coal this area is famous for, and the fossil remains of the giant lizards are now unearthed at the quarry. |