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Show Ancient Indian drawon walls date back over the canyon 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 8. BUCKHORN DRAW. From Highway 24, you might call this place Goblin Country. If you only saw the area around Skyline Drive, youd probably call it Alpine Country. In Nine Mile Canyon youd call it Ancient Indian Mural Country. But yoU 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. canyons and massive buttes. DINOSAUR 10. CLEVELAND-LLOYQUARRY AND VISITOR CENTER. Castle Country was once the shoreline of a vast D in- land sea, where tropical forests harboured the TOUR 1 -- ONE TANK NINE MILE CANYON 2 Petroglyphs 4. GOBLIN VALLEY STATE PARK (Temple 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 Mountain Jet.) A 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 is the largest monolith in Utah. free-standi- 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 stagecoach and 53). ry freight route and center of the Fremont Indian culture of about 1000 A D Deserted s log cabins, Indian petroglyphs and picto-graph- abound in the area 3. 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 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. |