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Show Spf4n0times Trmrel Utah By TOM BUSSELBERG If you haven't caught spring fever, yet, it will only be a matter mat-ter of days before the calendar catches up with you and it really real-ly is spring. AND WITH the advent of warmer days and even-longer hours of daylight, lots of people's peo-ple's sights start turning to vacations-long and short-from short-from a few hours escape to some nearby canyon or historic histor-ic site to the month-long variety. Utah is full of such places that can invigorate you while entertaining or educating, and through the coming months, we'll try to take you there, vicariously, through cooperation coopera-tion with the Utah Travel Council with heavy use of the new book, "Utah: A Guide to the State" by Ward J. Roy-lance Roy-lance that was released last year. IT'S AN update and much-expanded much-expanded version of the 1941 American Guide Series project produced by the federal Writers' Wri-ters' Program of the Work Projects Pro-jects Administration. It's broken down into chapters on climate and weather, physical makeup of the state, history, economics, cultural scene from religion to the arts, while Part 2 is where our emphasis will lie, "Touring Utah's Highways High-ways and Sideroads." Several tours are outlined of that shorter variety suitable for families who just want to get away on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. It goes on to cover seasons and climate, events, travel tips, museums and exhibits, ex-hibits, the Great Salt Lake, Utah State parks, national forests and parks. ELEVEN TOURS are outlined, out-lined, including: Bridgerland-Cache Bridgerland-Cache and Rich counties; Golden Gol-den Spike Empire -- Box Elder, Davis, Morgan and Weber We-ber counties; Salt Lake Valley and vicinity-Great Salt Lake Country-East; Western Utah--Tooele, Juab and Millard counties; Mountainlands-Summit, Mountainlands-Summit, Utah and Wasatch counties; Dinosaurland-Daggett, Dinosaurland-Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties; Panoramaland--East: Piute, Sanpete, Seviere and Wayne Counties; Color Country-West; Beaver, Iron and Washington counties; Color Col-or Country-East: Garfield and Kane counties; Caste Country-Carbon and Emery counties coun-ties and Canyonlands, Grand and San Juan counties. You've most-likely heard about Flaming Gorge Dam in northeastern Utah, but have you ever read about what could be the oldest log cabin in the state nearby, "Uncle Jack Robinson's Cabin," dating from possibly the 1830's? THERE'S the state's national nation-al parks and their natural sites, ranging from Chimney Rock in the Canyonland's National Park area to the Zion National Park amphitheater where the visitor center is located and home to sites known as East Temple, Towers of the Virgin, the Beehives and the Sentinel. The Travel Council is set up to provide information about scenic sites as well s events going on around the state year-round, year-round, operating from its headquarters head-quarters at the old Council Hall across from the State Capitol in Salt Lake City, open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone Tele-phone inquiries may be had by calling 533-5681 while letters may be addressed to the council, coun-cil, Council Hall, State Capitol, Capi-tol, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114. THE GUIDE is availaole in hardback, containing not only the tours but chapters on culture cul-ture and physical factors mentioned men-tioned earlier, or may be obtained in a paperback version ver-sion containing only the tours from area bookstores. i fi.rt'.w.wvpg.j |