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Southwest Circle Tour Roads and Bridges Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon North Rim National Parks Cedar Breaks, Pipe Spring National Monuments Kaibab, Dixie National Forests
In 1922, Cedar City served as a departure point to both Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon. Visitors to Bryce braved the long pioneer road from Paragonah, developed some 50 years earlier but improved little since that time. Three years later, Thomas Murphy returned for another visit and wrote:
The changes Murphy noted grew out of an ambitious state program, funded partially with new federal aid, to replace old roads with modern highways. The state abandoned the old road from Paragonah to Panguitch and constructed a new highway across the Markagunt Plateau along the same lines as today's Utah Highway 14, and completed a 3-mile spur from this highway to Cedar Breaks. By 1924, the U.S. Forest Service completed the Red Canyon Road, described by Murphy above, and a 2-mile segment of Bryce Canyon's Rim Road from Red Canyon Road to Bryce Canyon Lodge. By 1925, visitors from Cedar City to Zion or Bryce Canyon enjoyed well-designed, surfaced roads. | Introduction | Acadia | Blue Ridge Parkway | Chickamauga and Chattanooga | Colonial Parkway | Generals Highway | George Washington Memorial Parkway | Great Smoky Mountains | Mount Rainier | Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway | Shenandoah's Skyline Drive | Southwest Circle Tour | Vicksburg | Yellowstone | Yosemite | |