Day 9: October 10, 2024
Cows and Pictographs
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On the way out of Price, I grabbed snapshots of a couple of repurposed but still standing theaters.
These were taken on what is now UT-10. Read the plaque on that marker here.
These are from I-70, not UT-10. The digit eight is simply never seen on speed limit signs in Ohio. And it takes limits like that to get advisories like this.
After twenty-five or so miles of I-70, I exited onto Old Highway 10. The Old Spanish Trail the sign identifies is obviously the named auto trail that connected Saint Augustine, FL, with San Diego, CA, in the early twentieth century but a real Spanish trail that connected Santa Fe, NM, and Los Angeles, CA, in the nineteenth century. This Old Spanish Trail was actually a network of trails that supported trade between the two settlements.

This section of Old Highway 10 passes through Fishlake National Forest. Things got a little squirrelly and then a little cowy before the road ducked under the interstate and out of the national forest.

On the other side of Salina, my route followed Old Highway 89 to where it joined current US-89. There is a small park with some information on the Old Spanish Trail and the trail is an actual footpath, although it's a paved and striped footpath.
On the other side of US-89, I enter another section of Fishlake National Forest and in about five miles reach Fremont Indian State Park and Museum. The pictographs in Sego Canyon were created by the Fremont. The last photo was taken at a place called Newspaper Rock which contains more than 1,000 images. The others were taken from a short trail near the museum. There are many more images in the park and many more and longer trails.
I have seen plenty of Halloween displays on this trip. Some have been quite large and creative while some have been rather bland collections of store bought skeletons and such. The city of Parowan, UT, has a really large and creative display made up of a whole lot of small and creative displays. Some cheer on the local teams, some advertise local businesses, and some are just there but they all make the town's Main Street (PPOO) wonderfully festive.
I passed this Old Spanish Trail pack train just before I entered Arizona and bedded down in the Jack Buetel room at the Beaver Dam Lodge in Littlefield. Both the Cadillac and the room were a little tired but so was I and it all worked out.
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