While out walking at North Domingo Baca Park after work, I saw light on the north Sandias between some treetops. I took a photo and then thought nothing of it and finished my walk. But then later, when you process a photo, sometimes you see something in it that you did not see when...
Read more →I have been posting single photos from the Utah trip the last week and some as an easy out, I reckon. It’s been easier than sitting down and trying to string words together, which is really more of the right reason to have a blog- to convey insights and information about one’s life and...
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When the Latter-Day Saints settled in this valley in southern central Utah, the nearby Fremont River provided irrigation for one of their first agricultural ventures- fruit trees. This field is a living remnant of those orchards around the once small community of Fruita, which was established in the 1880’s.
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Enter Zion and take the Zion Canyon Scenic Drive north to its end at the Temple of Sinawava lot, and then can take the Riverside Walk towards the Gateway to the Narrows.
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About halfway between Kanab and Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah- and the mouth of Zion Canyon to its west- is a turnoff south for Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. From this drive, the view northwest features the elevated sandstone formations that comprise the region around Zion National Park.
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First built in 1929, the first bridge on this site, initially called Grand Canyon Bridge (and renamed Navajo Bridge five years later), was constructed to replace passage across the Colorado River and Marble Canyon by ferry. In 1873, at a location 5 miles north of the bridges, a landing called Lees Ferry had been...
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