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Show Southern Utah Loop Offers Colorful Fall Season Tour (Editor's note: This is one in a scries of articles on "21 Tours Through the Different Wolrd of Utah." These Tours have been planned by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council to show you Utah's most outstanding attractions attrac-tions with the least amount of driving, in the shortest time, and over the best roads available. By taking each one of these tours, a person could conceivably see ahe entire state on week ends with in a year.) , S mow J SWiJ""! ennui J fi'W'tmm IT CIMM Glowing autumn foliage, coupled with autumn haze and pleasant weather, make this perfect season sea-son for circle tour. Autumn hrings flowing fall foliage to the cliff country of Utah's Dixie and the canyons of Zion iNational Park, as well as the familiar aspen forests of the state. As a result, sighteers looking look-ing for color contrasts would do well to save at least one weekend week-end in late September or October for a junket around the Cedar City - Enterprise Pine Valley - Si. George loop. There are campgrounds in or near the new Dixie State Park, fine Valley, Cedar Canyon and J'arowan Canyon. Good mctcls are plentiful at all major communities com-munities on U. S. 91 and the lavemcnt good. The Cedar Ci-Jy Ci-Jy - St. (-ji;e mileage on U. S. VI is 54 miles; while the back-country back-country route by way of Pine Valley is 105 miles in length. Add 316 miles each way from .Salt Lake City to St. George or calculate mileage accordingly Jrom your starting place. In St. George, visit the impressive impres-sive Mormon Temple, historic tabernacle, Brig ham Young's Home ta state park), and pioneer museum. Alo drive around the off -highway streets and see many iuaiiitjcld homes still in use. If you live an extra hour, drive wrst to tree-shaded Santa Clara, a charming pioneer town, and visit the very interesting rock home of Jacob llamblin, early Mormon missionary to the Indians. In-dians. This curious old building .18 now a state park. A mile west of St. George, turn aright on State 18 toward the lofty -Tine Valley Mountains, which irise almost 8,000 feet above the valley floor. A few miles along this highway, detour to the edge ul Snow Canyon (see sign), a beautifully eroded gorge cut into delicately colored sanusione and partially filled with an ancient flow of black lava. It is worthwhile worth-while to drive down into Snow Canyon, central attraction of Dixie State Park, and visit the old movie set and campground. Back on Highway 18, you will pass several symmetrical volcanic vol-canic cones. At Central, turn east to Pine Valley, a rustic pioneer village in a delightful alpine setting. set-ting. The unusual white chapel is the highpolnt here; it was built a hundred years ago by Ebenezer Bryce, for whom Bryce Canyon was named. You may want to drive a few miles further to Pine Valley Lake to picnic, camp or fish. From Central, continue on toward to-ward Enterprise, detouring if you wish to Mountain Meadows Monument, Mon-ument, which marks the site of a massacre of California-bound emigrant in ,1857. Enterprise, a farming center. Is on the edge ol the Great Basin, Escalante Valley sssMsHsMssn stretches far away to the north, its farms watered by wells. Turn east on State 5G to Cedar City, visiting the huge Columbia-Geneva Columbia-Geneva iron mine of U. S. Steel Corporation, which supplies iron for the steel works at Geneva. A few miles south are the ruins of Old Irontown, site of a pioneer Mormon iron making venture. You should visit them if time al lows. Then drive on to Cedar City (Tour IS) on U. S. 91. Those wishing to obtain an illustrated il-lustrated copy of all 21 Tours in the series can do so by sending 25 cents to the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council. Council House. State Capitol, Salt Lake City 14, Utah. |