Covered Wagon Ruin

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 4972 feet
Cellphone: 0-2 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: MM 31.1
Fee: none
Attractions: ruin, petroglyphs

The Covered Wagon Ruin is located along Montezuma Creek between Blanding and Monticello, Utah. The site consists of a remnant wall from a small ruin and a large surface with an assortment of petroglyphs. One of the images looks like either a covered wagon or perhaps a stagecoach.

Fort Pearce Heritage Site

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.2 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 2937 - 2965 feet
Cellphone: 0-2 bars
Time: 30 mins.
Trailhead: Fort Pearce
Fee: none
Attractions: Historic fort, petroglyphs

The Fort Pearce Historic Site is located in Warner Valley east of St. George, Utah. The defensive structure was built on a bluff overlooking a popular route used by Indians by the local Mormon militia in 1866 to help protect settlers from raiding Ute and Navajo raiders led by Chief Black Hawk (Antonga) during Utah's Black Hawk Wars between 1865 and 1870.

Cedars

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 4 miles
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 6654 - 6866 feet
Cellphone: 0 bars
Time: 2 hrs. 30 mins.
Trailhead: Cedars
Fee: none
Attractions: Historic trail

The Cedars trail is located in the Grand Gulch/Cedar Mesa area west of Blanding, Utah. The trail begins at the junction of Utah Highway 95 and Highway 275 which leads to Natural Bridges National Monument. From there the trail heads eastward, parallel with Highway 95, for 1.3 miles to where it crosses the Grand Gulch. After that the trail begins climbing for another 0.7 miles until it comes to an end about a half mile before reaching Highway 261. The Cedars trail is a segment of the longer Hole-in-the-Rock Trail used by Mormon pioneers in the 1800's that reached from Escalante to Bluff, Utah.

Bluff Fort

Rating: 
Round Trip Distance: 0.5 miles
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 4292- 4304 feet
Cellphone: 3-5 bars
Time: 45 mins.
Trailhead: Black Locust Ave.
Fee: none
Attractions: Outdoor museum and Visitor Center

Bluff Fort is an Historic Site located in Bluff, Utah. The fort was built when Mormon pioneers arrived in the area in 1880 after an arduous 6 month journey by way of the Hole-in-the-Rock trail. The fort has been rebuilt by the Hole in the Rock Foundation. A few of the implements and other items belonged to the original pioneers. They are augmented with other authentic articles that date from the same time period. Visiting Bluff Fort is truly like stepping back in time to the late 1800's.