Sandstone reflections
I spent the last two days editing the Utah chapters of my opus on US Highway 89, which means I have been rifling through my books, notes and photocopies for random facts that need checking. Like these gems
- The forest service has been pleading with people since at least 1926, the year Highway 89 was born, to not shoot up the road signs.
- Utah's first "good roads" was held at Lagoon, ironic since Simon Bamberger built the resort in part to attract ridership to his electric tramway.
- The Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776 stopped at some hot springs in Spanish Fork Canyon on their way to Utah Lake. Probably Castilla Hot Springs, which was another resort, until it burned down.
- Piute County only has about 1,350 residents, but it's not the smallest in Utah (Daggett, with under 1,000, wins that contest)
- At its highest level, Lake Bonneville's surface was 650' above Logan's Main Street
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