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Show Pioneers travel Honeymoon Trail western Pioneer life. During the 1870's and 1880's Pipe Spring was an LDS cattle operation with at times a tithing herd of over 2,000 head. In these years cheese, butter, and beef were taken to St. George to be distributed by the Southern Utah tithing office. The present day pioneers are following nearly the same route as the original ranchers did. Pipe Spring was also a stopover for young couples traveling from Arizona to the temple to be married. A young couple, Janice Clason and Au Fonoimoana, to be married in the St. George temple on September Sep-tember 18 will be traveling the historic trail as a symbol of one of its purposes. Pipe Spring National Monument employees and friends will travel the Old Honeymoon Trail from Pipe Spring to St. George in five wagons from Sept. 14 - 18. They will end their trek on September 18 by entering the Dixie Days Round-Up Parade. At 1:30 pm of the same day, to celebrate the purpose of Pipe Spring, they will present to the St. George LDS Temple President, Grant Martin Bowler, cheese and butter made at Pipe Spring. This commemorative event is part of the bicentennial celebration of the National Park Service. Pipe Spring has been a. national monument since 1923 and was set aside to memorialize |