Show T 1 h i r 4 r. r i r v I 1 l a 4 5 1 Editors Editor's Note This is 19 an another another an- an other in a series of See Utah articles' articles designed to better acquaint ac ao- quaint with their home homeI I state state The articles have been I prepared by the Utah Tourist land and and Publicity Council Each week a different sector of the State will be featured Rainbow Bridge one of the worlds world's most amazing natural wonders Is going to get a new newl lease l ae on life Ute f Rainbow Bridge National Monument Monument ment went was established in 1910 1810 but it ft is so 80 remote and isolated that only a handful of persons have seen this worlds world's largest and most formed beautifully natural bridge J But now with the waters of Lake Powell backing up behind Glen Olen Canyon Dam in or two two visitors will be able to get getto getto getto to the bridge with relative ease Rainbow Bridge National Monument Monument Monument Mon Mon- Is this weeks week's Tour of the Week presented by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council i This is Rainbow Bridge Dridge perhaps one of natures nature's most Beautiful pieces of work The bridge is greater than any other known natural bridge in size in color and in its almost perfect perfect perfect per per- symmetry Circle indica indicates es two persons standing atop the famed bridge I I The The tours have been planned to better acquaint with the wonders of the Beehive State according according ac as cording to D D. James Cannon the Council Director I i Most 1 Remote Rainbow Bridge stands in the semi desert country of southeastern southeast southeast- ern Utah in San Juan County It ItIs Itis Itis is one of the most remote and in inaccessible inaccessible inaccessible in- in accessible areas in the United States Not only docs does it not lure visitors visitors visitors tors compared with other national monuments but so 50 rugged is the I 1 surrounding Rainbow Plateau that few of the Navajo and Indans Indans In- In dans who who live nearby nar-by have ever evers s s- s seen sen en the bridge bridie The bridge nestles among can can- carved by streams that wind I their way from the northern side i of of Navajo Mountain toward the j I Colorado River It spans Rainbow Rainbow Rain Rain- bow Bridge Canyon and th the tiny streamlet in its bot bottom om I Greatest Bridge I Rainbow Bridge is greater than any other natural br bridge dge in size in color and in its almost perfect symmetry With a foot span the bridge gracefully arches to a height of feet large feet large a enough oni gh to straddle the Capitol Building Building- I In Washington DC D.C. At the top the bridge is thicker thick thick- I er than a three-story three building thick thick-I 42 I feet and it is wide enough 33 I feet to accommodate the average I hIghway In 1909 1809 John ohn Wetherill Dean Byron CUmmIngs and W. W B. B Dougas Douglas Douglas Doug- Doug las as were the first firs White men to view Rainbow Bridge Bridged Th The great natural wonder Is an example of the effect of stream erosion One geologic explanation explanations I Is s that the arch was formed I through the penetration by the I I stream of the neck of an entrenched en en- j en-j trenched meander meander oxbow Many boaters have visited the I great red bridge e by hiking six miles up Forbidden Aztec Creek and Rainbow Bridge Canyons from the Colorado River An alternate approach is byland by byland land hind from Navajo Mountain which Is b reached by unpaved roads leadIng lead lead- I Ing from U. U S. S 89 in Arizona or State 47 In Utah The overland trip by horse or mule is 14 miles II each way by trail trall requiring at I least two or three days days' for tor the the- round trip I |