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Zion's 2002 <--Page 5Wednesday we started for home, along the way we stopped by a couple of ghost towns. First was only a few miles from Zion's. Springdale is the town just outsiee the park, the next town on the way back to St. George is Rockville. Grafton is a ghostown that is about 4 miles back on a dirt road. This is the town where they filmed the bicycle riding scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
This is a view of the river bottom on the way out to the town, floods were one of the reason's the town was deserted.
This was the old adobe meeting house that they recently restored.
This is the next restoration project.
This is an old workshop of some kind.
I think this is the house where Butch and Sundance sit on the porch.
We also stopped at the cemetery.
The tombstones that were still readable were pretty stark.
Just before your reach Barstow is another ghost town, called Calico that was restored in the 1960's by Mr. Knotts of Knottsberry Farm Fame.
Here is the sign that explains how it came to be.
Since this was commercially restored and it cost to enter, there were obviously a lot more touristy things to do.
Whose hands are those?
They even had an old silver mine you could go walk through.
Sofi had her Cheeto's along just in case we got hungry.
After this the road home is pretty much a lot of long stretches of Nevada desert and California Highway 5 scenery. One of my favorite roads along the way is this one.
Well that wraps up another Zion's trip, looking forward to next year already.