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Show Utah Scenic Wonders Praised in Auto Club Magazine Southern Utah's spectacular canyon country, including Bryce and Zion National Parks and Cedar Breaks National Monument, Monu-ment, are described at length in the September issue of "West-ways," "West-ways," official publication of the Automobile Club of Southern California. This particular Issue of the magazine is unusual in that it contains a complete guide to America's great southwest written writ-ten by one author, Wekion F. Ileald, an authority on the lore of the land. The magazine describes in detail de-tail 21 recreational areas in the southwestern states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and southwestern Colorado, under the general title, "Motoring "Motor-ing Under the Arc of the Fabulous Fabu-lous Southwest." Ileald writes: "On the western edge of the Canyon Country in Utah, streams have cut back into the high mountain rim and laid bare some of the most spectacular spectacu-lar of the gaudlest hued rocks in the world. "Central feature of 117-square-mile Zion National Park is the canyon of the Virgin River which extends for 15 miles between sheer, smooth-faced cliffs scalloped scal-loped into amphitheaters and alcoves, al-coves, and topped by domes, pinnacles pin-nacles and towers rising 2,500 -3,800 feet." "Bryce Canyon National Park is generally conceded to be the most beautiful and colorful work of erosion on earth," Ileald continues. con-tinues. Two chapters are devoted to Utah. One is on the southern section sec-tion of the state. The other describes de-scribes Salt Lake City, Wasatch Mountains, Timpanogos Cave National Na-tional Monument and other outstanding out-standing points of interest in northern Utah. |