| Show OYe rumen Plans ans New e Road 0 a To Bryce Cany Canyon on Lid euld Place Canyon on Loop Road to be he beI Roads Within Zion and Bryce National Na- Na I Spent on Lial Parks Contract Let at North Rim Out of the national parks highway fund provided by the last congress of which is to be spent within the parks and on park approach roads it Is expected expected expected ex ex- that an approach road to Bryce canyon national park will be built that tha will put this scenic attraction on a loop route rather than on the end ofa of ol ola a stub Announcement comes from Washington Washing Washing- ton that this pl plan n will be carried out If the state of Utah can cooperate and build five miles mlles of road through privately privately privately owned lands This Is because of or a provision in the law that specifies that approach roads may be constructed construct construct- ed ou out cf of this fund only through public lands The entire road would be about 27 miles mlles long with five miles mlles being private private vate lands and most of the balance Inthe in inthe inthe the Powell and Dixie national forests A recent a addition was made to Bryce national park parl extending its boundaries boundaries boundaries bound bound- aries about nine miles farther south and a road is to be built along the rim this distance It is proposed to construct construct construct con con- a road along the rim farther south and then going southwesterly until it connects with Route 89 near the Junction that connects the Cedar- Cedar Long Valley road with that route The entire distance of this new project Is through beautiful mountainous country country country coun coun- try and possesses possesses' great possibilities as a scenic route The new road would make it possible to visit Bryce via the present route through Red Canyon and i then return over an entirely different route eliminating all retracing Most of the route would be about ft elevation and would add much to the pleasantness of the trip in hot summer months Henry H. H Blood chairman of the Utah State Road Commission has ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the belief bellef that no legal difficulties difficulties difficulties stand in the way of the state doing its share of the construction It is expected that if the State can cooperate the surveying will ill be done doneen doneen en cn the project this summer so that work can be undertaken In 1932 Of the money appropriated for road road construction within the parks has been assigned to Utah one item of being for reconstruction on ona ona ona a new and permanent alignment of the road on the floor of Zion from the entrance up to the Narrows and the theether theether theether ether for the construction of ofa ofa ofa a roadway within the new Bryce canyon canyon canyon can can- yon park area to open up to the public the scenic wonders just added to that park The national park service started Its road-building road program In southern Utah for this year ear by awarding to O. O A A. A Lindberg of Stockton California the contract for hard surfacing the road graded last summer between the north entrance to the Grand Can Canyon on National Park to Bright Angel Springs where the road joins the new highway to Cape Royal Roal The contract price is The work will vill be done as early as weather on the north rim permits |
