by Don McGowan | Jul 24, 2020 | July 2020
The Colorado Plateau is replete with out-of-the-way places of stark contrast and immense beauty. The San Rafael Swell between Utah 24 and Interstate 70 is just such a place. The Sinbad Country, south of the interstate and just north of the San Rafael Reef is a magical...
by Don McGowan | Jul 19, 2020 | July 2020
Between Boulder City and Escalante, Utah the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument includes the middle watershed of the Escalante River’s 90-mile run from the confluence of Birch Creek and Upper Valley Creek on the eastern slopes of the Escalante Mountains...
by Don McGowan | Jul 11, 2020 | July 2020
One of the greatest joys of my life is the knowledge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park I have had the good fortune to accumulate over the past sixty-five years of visiting, and then living, in this awesome landscape, Shaconage. So when Bonnie and I left...
by Don McGowan | Jul 4, 2020 | July 2020
Utah Highway 12, that beautiful All-American Road, connects US 89 west of Bryce Canyon Junction and Utah Highway 24 at Torrey to the northeast. In 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) completed the section between Boulder CIty and Escalante which had previously...
