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Show J ', i ..I., i in1 i i ii 1 -- i 'iiwni,iui.itim -' . ' 1 kr. -1 ... " . v it i Boulder's town hall and elementary school is still the hub of iuch activity. Room for public meetings, ceramics classes, and children to play makes the facility inviting to all. -Once Remote Boulder "Now Fully 'In Touch' ; BOULDER With the dubi- Hous honor of having been the last town in the U.S. to receive its mail by mule team, Boulder's remoteness is now largely a thing of the past, with the paving of the Boulder Mountain Road as a major connecting con-necting link between two famous naiional parks Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef. The beautiful little town has modern zoning. In an effort to keep its small-town, farming atmosphere, atmo-sphere, Boulder's minimum lot is five acres, and it looks as though it (will keep its farming, ranching fla-y fla-y vor for a long time to come. Actually located at about the center of the county, Boulder is of-ten of-ten thought of as the eastern boundary, since for so long travel to the more eastern parts was ex--tremcly difficult. Modern roads and " an appreciation for ihe magnificent " .1 unusual scenery of the central t A eastern parts of Garfield County nave made a lot of changes in travel through the area. -in F!jhing in the manv lakes on fJouIdcr Mountain and camping in ils several campgrounds is so outstanding out-standing that word has spread rapidly now that the areas are more accessible. )U H! limited farming, it is nevertheless nev-ertheless an area respected by stockmen, and it was stockmen lno originally settled the area. Two men from Richfield brought 500 -t.ncad of cattle into the area in 1879, H' although there is evidence that other ' white men had used the 'i1 has estimated that me 12,000 head of cattle grazed Larea in me ten years between y90 and 1900. A school was started in 1896 af-J af-J r a few more families moved in; if. ,Jp f the residents in Boulder V bcar lhe same family names Uiose early settlers. A road from Escalante to Boulder was constructed during the depression. depres-sion. Known as the Upper Road, it raversed 45 miles over some nriiiing and dangerous terrain. It H lncludrcd "Hell's Backbone" bridge, p we of the highest in the world at we time. i tr,hCroulc followed by today's ,Ql-Hiehway 12 was opened in in.?, T 11 was 1971 before it was ?icf ivcd' An cxtra day or two of vacation time spent exploring explor-ing the wonders of the area around Boulder Mountain and the magnificent magnifi-cent Aquarius Plateau will provide some of the best scenery, good fishing, and exciting and unusual terrain to be found in the U. S. If the road seems a bit steep and twisty at limes, it should be reassuring reas-suring to remember that the children chil-dren from Boulder travel to Escalante Es-calante every school day of the year in a big yellow school bus that has never had an accident as it traverses the road in the snowiest and iciest of weather. Home of the Anasazi Indian Village Vil-lage Slate Historical Monument, Boulder can offer the visitor a concept con-cept of history ranging from the pre-historic twisted formations of much of its surrounding terrain through the basketmakcr Indian period pe-riod and on to the turn-of-the-cen-tury pioneer period when the area was settled by ancestors of its present pre-sent inhabitants. For a real step back into time, visit Boulder. |