| Show a 1 r Mj T R THISTLE r 19 Rio y sI HELPER r t o y W r rr t.- t. CASTLE BASTIE DALE v t Smooth pavement on US U.S. contrasts 89 with mountain mountain- spanning Skyline as loop The Th M Mormon rmon Temple at Manti ManU built of white limestone and tour threads t the Wasatch completed in 1888 is a landmark visible miles away on Highway 89 Utah's Skyline Drive Listed As One of Nations Nation's Highest Editors Editor's note This is one in a series of articles on 21 Tours Through the Different Different Different Differ Differ- ent World of Utah These tours have been planned bythe bythe by bythe the Utah Tourist and Publicity Publicity Publicity city Council to show you Utah's most outstanding attractions attractions attractions at at- tractions with the least amoun of ot driving in the shortest time and over the best roads available By taking taking taking tak tak- ing each one of these tours a person could conceivably see the entire state on weekends weekends weekends week week- ends within a year Little known to and rarely travelled by visitors to the state the Skyline Drive extending along the edge of the Wasatch from a point near Thistle to the hamlet of Mayfield Mayfield Mayfield May- May field may well be one of the longest high-elevation high scenic routes in the nation Part of ofa a mile mlle loop leading from Thistle just 65 miles mlles south of Salt Lake City on US U.s. 6 50 the Skyline Drive is taken in combination n with a well-paved well sector of valley valley spanning spanning US U.S. 89 There are campgrounds in inthe inthe inthe the forest lands at Gooseberry where Skyline Drive intersects U 31 at Flat Canyon on U 31 and on roads between Skyline Drive and Spring Eph City-Eph- raim-Manti-Mayfield raim in Ferron Ferron Fer- Fer ron ron Canyon and in Maple Canyon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon west of Moroni Motel accommodations accommodations accommodations ac ac- ac- ac are available inor in inor inor or near Gunnison Manti Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim Mt Pleasant Fairview and Tucker Theres There's no gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line or other supplies on the Skyline Drive and the route should be avoided in wet weather For nearly a hundred miles the drive winds along the upper upper upper up up- per reaches of the massive Wasatch Plateau passing through lovely ever aspen green forests and flower-filled flower meadows or along the top of rocky ridges It is not a frightening frightening frightening drive though views down into Sanpete Valley on one side and deep canyons on the other are stirring Most of the drive is at elevations above feet with some of it as high as feet Though none of the drive is paved it is passable in the summer by sedan at moderate moderate moderate ate speeds and it is intersected intersected intersected inter inter- by roads leading down downto to Sanpete and Castle Valleys |
