Highway 12 Christian Probasco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Probasco, Christian, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile travel--Utah--Guidebooks.

Automobile travel.

Capitol Reef National Park (Utah)--Description and travel.

Capitol Reef National Park (Utah).

Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)--Description and travel.

Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah).

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah)--Description and travel.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Utah).

United States Highway 12--Guidebooks.

United States Highway 12.

Utah--Description and travel.

Utah.

Utah--Guidebooks.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Highway 12 is undoubtedly one of not only America's but the world's most scenic highways. From its intersection on the west with Highway 89 south of Panguitch, Utah, it runs up through Red Canyon onto the Paunsagunt Plateau and across Bryce Canyon National Park. It then drops into the Paria River Valley, passes through several tiny villages, crosses some extraordinary (for anywhere but this region) badlands, and descends the Escalante River into Potato Valley. While a driver may justifiably feel she has seen some scenery by that point, the highway is just getting started, for in the ne

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; chapter one Hoodoo Lands and the Rim; chapter two The Western Spokes; chapter three Hard Roads; chapter four The Eastern Rim, the Eastern Spokes and the Hub; Bibliography; Note on the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-28337-9

9786613283375

0-87421-509-9

OCLC:

476039904

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access