Show Try the Pioneer Trail this week Editors Editor's note This is one in a series of on 21 Tours Through the Different World of Utah These Tours have been planned by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council to show you ou Utah's most outstanding attractions with the least amount of driving driving driving ing in the shortest time andover and andover nd over o the best roads available By taking each one of these tours a person could conceivably conceivably conceivably con con- see the entire state on week ends within a year A circle tour from Salt Lake City or Ogden up Weber Canyon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon and over the Mormon Pioneer Pioneer Pioneer Pio Pio- neer Tra Trail l offers travelers a wide variety of scenic and historical historical his his- wonders HERE IS an interesting and I miles It can be taken in a relaxing drive that covers only single day although you may want to stretch it into two days and stop overnight along the way Accommodations can be found in m Salt Lake City Ogden Morgan and Echo The b bps best st time is between May and mid- mid October Autumn late September Septem Septem- ber bel early October is especially especially especially colorful along this drive as the foliage is turning turning turning turn turn- ing bright red and yellow The tour incorporates a startling startling startling start start- ling variety of terrain ranging from rugged mountains and fertile fertile fertile fer fer- tile rural valleys to the industrialized industrialized industrialized indus indus- heavily populated heavily populated Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch Wa- Wa satch Front THOUGH the circle tour can be made in either direction you may prefer to follow th the Pioneer Pioneer Pioneer Pio Pio- neer Trail in the same direction direction direction tion as that traveled by the pioneers pioneers pio pioneers pio- pio that is southwest from Henefer In this case start your your tour from US U.S. 81 89 which winds along the base of the towering Wasatch Moun Mom v x Pass eastward on US U.S. Interstate SON through impressive impressive im im- Weber Canyon which widens out from Devils Devil's Gate into a fertile ringed mountain valley fa famed ed for it its rural beau beau- ty The highway passes Devils Devil's Slide a fantastic rock chute on the mountainside and a large cement plant Here you may detour on an unpaved mountain road leading from Croyden to Chinatown a little known area of red rocks eroded eroded eroded erod erod- ed into weird forms inquire locally for directions AT MORGA you may leave US U.S. SOS for Porterville and East Canyon Pioneer Trail or continue on to Henefer and meet the Pioneer Trail there The Porterville Morgan-Porterville route is isone isone isone one of the loveliest rural drives in n Utah while the Henefer 0 0 CHINA CHINATOWN CHINATOWN- CROYDE 89 O O 0 91 MORGAN DEVILS suDE SLIDE NAil y HENEFER I FARMINGTON v 0 4 j I FOREST o EAST CANYON fl RESERVOIR o BOUNTIFUL BIG MOUNTAIN no 0 STATE p r 1 CoA COI Co A PI L PIONEER MONUMENT n l 1 u STATE PARK SALT LITTLE J CITY C ITY HOG HO lE IE ZOO f 40 EMIGRATION CANYON route oute has the advantage of including including in- in luding more of the Pioneer Trail Both routes merge at East Canyon Reservoir and continue on n to Salt L Lake ke City over almost almost almost al al- most exactly the same route established est by the ill fated Donner Doner Don Don- ner er P Party in 1846 1896 followed a year ear later by the first Mormon pioneers and then used for years rears afterward by thousands of f Mormon and California pio pio- YOU YOU- YOUlIA l IA MAY Y WISH to boat and fish at East Canyon Resort then continue up East Canyon through aspen and evergreen forest toward Big Mountain Pass one of the most difficult natural barriers barriers' encountered by the pioneers Even today ona on ona ona a good highway it is a breathtaking breath breath- breathtaking taking drive affording grand views across jagged peaks of the Wasatch and far down into I e er r t I 4 t t 4 w ao r rA rc rt c A t r rv v a Parleys rand hand Emigration Can Can- a From Big Mountain the drive winds down into Little Dell then over Little Mountain into Emigration Canyon which it follows to the canyons canyon's mouth overlooking S Salt lt Lake Valley There at Pioneer Monument State Park the visitor has the same spectacular flu far-flu n g view of mountain valley and lake which greeted the pioneers pioneers pioneers pio pio- more than a hundred years ago a view now ex expanded expanded of course with the addition addition ad ad- of a beautiful city Those wishing to obtain an illustrated copy of all 21 Tours in the series can do soby so soby soby by sending 25 cents to the Ut Utah h Tourist and Publicity Council Council House State Capitol Salt Lake City 14 H. H Utah |