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| Red Canyon... new restrooms 31 March 2013 |
Well it looks like a good season has started... we have a moon over the new comfort station... rather then a half moon on each door. After a week of getting the visitor center reheated, cleaned, and a lot of work going on outside to complete the restrooms, clean-up the grounds and install the interpretation panel frames... the red canyon visitor center opened for question and answer sessions on March 29th. We also had the final walk through of this past winters construction/facelift of the center front yard, not all without some complications, on opening day, we had port-o-potties the first day open to lend to the air'e of wilderness experience... and just to let visitors know they were on "vacation". The following morning we opened the new restrooms for public use... there are still a few odds and ends to do... benches to set on are still coming and a series of interpretation panels still to come... as the frames are now "blank" as i felt moving toward the completion of this project at sometimes. I was glad to have my own punch list to keep me busy inside the center to get ready to open this center for the tenth time in as many years. There is lots of show and tell inside as well, a most wonderful show of plain aire paintings by Cedar City artist Brad Holt, who worked all winter painting in the canyon, along with an eighty-four million year old Hadrosaur mandible still incased in stone, along with all of our usual display's and gift/book store, come on in if your in the area, and we have an answer for most everything relating to the area.
The center is open Fridays through Mondays, 9am-6pm, for the month of April, then starting April 30 we will be open seven days a week same 9-6 times daily.
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| Red Canyon, Dixie National Forest March 2013 |
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YES we're OPEN 2013
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Lots to do hiking trails, biking trails paved and dirt, single track, and the best single track bike trail in Utah... Thunder Mountain! This is a great place to get away from the crowds of the surrounding national parks. Red canyon is a canyon by definition, it is "V" shaped, has two sides and in our case a dry wash, most of the time, running through it. The canyon runs east to west and is cut into the western edge of the Paunsaugant Plateau. As one, of eight, persons that spends seven plus months of each year working in the canyon it is comfortable and makes me feel at home because the canyon "wraps" its arms/walls about me. We operate/work in the bottom of the canyon and look up to "see" the warm red rocks surround us. Most visitors like this canyon for that feeling of being "in" a canyon, unlike Bryce, where you stand at the top and look down into it like a god. Bryce Canyon is miss named, it was called Bryce's Canyon by the early pioneers. Bryce is not a canyon at all, but a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from a break on the eastern edge of the Paunsagunt Plateau. The marvel for me of red canyon is to watch the weather move over, through, and up and down the canyon, and as an Artist/photographer watching the change in the "light" and shadow move through the canyon hour by hour, day by day for months at a time, this is something visitors rarely experience when they visit, because they don't stay long enough. Come and experience the canyon and also know that there are people here that watch over and care for one of the special places on earth.
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| " Man in the rock..." April 2013 |
Come and we will show you windows, coyote sleeping on the rocks, faces in the rocks and even this guy trying to escape from the rock... bring your sense of wonder and imagination... and see what you may find. This is my tenth year in the canyon and i still see/discover new things each day, and always look forward to tomorrow... with a smile.
Cheers... till you come again.
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