If I can recommend something ...
We're recently back from a trip to this area. We had a rental car, and as
we usually do on driving vacations, we ordered lunch for the day wherever we
had breakfast. Restaurants in the area are used to this, and we used our
lunch stops to see those smaller attractions that so many have written
about. It's an easy and pleasant way to give yourself about an extra hour a
day for your sightseeing, and it's a great way to relax with such astounding
scenery all around.
Keith
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> "george" wrote in message
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>>> George, where is this Anasazi village? We're planning a similar trip for
>>> next September.
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>>> Marianne
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>> Anasazai Indian Village State Park is by Boulder, about 1/3 of the way
>> between Capitol Reef NP and Bryce Canyon NP on Utah 12. There's not
>> much there but it makes an enjoyable pleasant hour stop and has
>> reconstructions of Indian dwellings and a small museum which are nice
>> and educational. Also, a good place to get a cold drink of water out of
>> their water fountain. A little further along is Escalante State Park
>> by Escalante which 20 years ago was a delightful place, a true oasis,
>> but on my last drive by five years ago wasn't anywhere as nice as it
>> used to be and now hardly worth stopping. There are a few petrified
>> trees there requiring a short hike.
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>> One of my favorite things in Capitol Reef NP is the small one room
>> school there. Because there are few places to see in this area dealing
>> with the human history, such places are worth a short visit. Another
>> is the old Mormon "fort" ranch settlement at Pipe Spring N.M. in NW
>> Arizona south of Zion NP. However, for most people it would be a
>> choice of Zion or Pipe Spring, so Zion would be the easy winner. And
>> if you're near Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site near Ganado
>> AZ south of Canyon de Chelly NM, it is also worth a short visit. The
>> Burger King in Kayenta, AZ had some interesting things. They had
>> constructed a Navajo Hogan and I believe some other buildings outside,
>> they had an interesting display on the Navajo "code talkers" used by
>> the marines in World War II to transmit messages in Navajo that the
>> Japanese could not break, and also some things to do with the flora of
>> the region.
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> Thanks, George!
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> Marianne
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