SNOW CANYON STATE PARK and UTAH MASSACRE MONUMENT

I told you, Gary would think of something for today, Thursday (the fourth Saturday of the week!)

Snow Canyon named for someone, not for any snowy condition, is a little north of St. George.  Just when I thought I had seen all the variations of Utah;s mountains!  Enjoy our drive.

Leaving St. George!

Approaching Snow Canyon State Park entrance.

Beginning our drive through the park.
There are many hikers and bicyclists!

They are a little below us.

Look on that mountain top!

Zoom lenses are wonderful!

 

Those mountains are covered with vegetation,
though it is difficult to tell from this distance.

Zooming again!

We are now getting into farm country.  Beautiful!

Just after leaving the north side of the canyon, Gary drives on to a Monument built in 2011 for a massacre that happened to a wagon train going through Utah from Arkansas in 1857.  Hopefully you can read the signs that were there so that I do not have to type it.  Very interesting.

Click on to enlarge for reading.

Back in St. George we stopped at Chase Bank and then Bear Paw Coffee Shop for lunch.  I should have taken a picture of Gary's plate!!  His 2-story club sandwich and fries was enough for 3 to 4 meals.  Needless to say we brought leftovers home.  Love it!!

DRIVE ABOUT HURRICANE

Went to lunch today at the Senior Center and met up with Eleanor, Thelma and Rolin for a chicken parm lunch.  Had a good visit as usual and then left to fill the gas tank for tomorrow.

Gary drove on past the RV Park and headed up into the house developments in the hills.  There were some awesome landscape jobs.  Just had to take some pictures of the ones loaded with roses!

I also took pictures of the same mountains from this vantage point with the bright sunshine today.  I know that you have seen them before, but the color is different each time that you see them.  Just had to share.

 

These mountains are visible from our park, but not as impressive as they are from a higher clearer vantage point.
Home again and a wonderful  afternoon to sit out and read! Gary also got the paintbrush out and covered the rust on our steps. Always something to do.

Tomorrow the plan is to go back in to St. George.  Not sure what Gary has in mind, but it is something that we have not seen yet.

KOLOB CANYONS and FRONTIER HERITAGE State Park in UTAH.

Monday dawned partially cloudy, but that did not stop us from taking a day out on the road.
I know that Kolob Canyons are much like what we see as we travel the byways, but it is a beautiful drive with many pull-offs for picture taking and also for those ambitious hikers.
Enjoy the pictures!

The sign said, "Find the hanging valley".  It amazes me how the trees take root in any crevasse.

Leaving the nice red road, we headed for Cedar City to see the Frontier Heritage Museum.  I was going to say that it is like all of the other museums, but it was not.  There were many large items, forms of transportation, household, and farming equipment.

The roads on the way with mountains in the distance are just as lovely.  I never tire of them.

The lovely colors and the effect that the clouds have on them is awesome!

Arriving at outskirts of Cedar City, what is this?  Is there a shoreline near by?  Not!

At Frontier Heritage Museum the first thing that we checked out was maybe the first Snowmobile patented in 1927 for use by Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin. After injuring his foot Eliason developed his first snow buggy to navigate the tough Wisconsin winters. It must have later been brought to the Utah hills.

 

 The looms interested us because of the one that Victor restored for the Salem Historical Society.

 This is a replica Wells Fargo Stagecoach, the only display that we were permitted to step into.

Several log buildings were reconstructed here on the grounds for viewing. A home cabin, a lineman cabin built in 1945, a school.

The Desert School building has this map on the wall, which I thought interesting as Utah territory included Nevada.

The lineman cabin with leather connecting logs.

There was also a sheep shearing building used by early settlers. And this home which was moved here, having been separated from it's later additions.

A house would not be a home without the outhouse, right?

And the settlers traveling west would not have made it without the Conestoga Wagon.  It looks like it could use some restoration!

Gary and I remember these ice boxes!!

Hearse

We had started our day with beef stroganof at the Senior Center with part of our friends, Eleanor, Thelma and Rolin.  We do enjoy there fellowship.  On Tuesday I went to Thelma's favorite laundromat down the road since our park has closed down the one near our motorhome.  They are tearing it down for reconstruction and maybe enlargement.  I hope that they give it more windows for natural light!
Now I need to get busy and make the bed and put the clothes away.  Just another day!!