Utah Environmental Congress
1817 South Main Street #10, Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Contact: Bob Brister 801-466-4055
bob@uec-utah.org
A DIXIE WILDERNESS IN RED CANYON
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011
Time: 7:45 AM Breakfast and Wilderness Orientation. 11:30 AM Hike
Location: Gather at Jakey Leigh’s Café, 4 East Center St., Kanab, Utah for wilderness orientation over breakfast and coffee with UEC’s Bob Brister and Kevin Mueller. Then carpool, or go directly on your own to the Red Canyon Visitor Center on US HWY 12, 3.2 miles east of the junction of US Highways 12 & 89, a distance of 62 miles from Kanab (on the way to Bryce Canyon National Park).
Description: The event begins with great coffee and breakfast at Jakey Leigh’s Cafe, and a brief orientation on National Forest lands in Utah that qualify for wilderness designation. After the breakfast orientation and travel to the trailhead, enjoy a hike of 3 to 6 miles through a landscape of extraordinary beauty on the west side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in the Dixie National Forest. This exquisite area of the Sunset Cliffs is being proposed for wilderness designation and is also the site for a proposed electrical transmission corridor that would cut the wilderness in half. Learn how the proposed electrical transmission corridor will impact the region. Dress accordingly for varied terrain and weather, bring plenty of water, and pack a lunch.
