Moonshine Arch

Thinking we would like one more day at River Run we asked if we could extend our stay on our site one more day.  We were told ‘no’ as the people coming in had locked the site.  We could move to another site.  It made no sense to us as there were at least 50 empty sites they could put the other people on.  We left and headed west.

First stop was Vernal Utah in the heart of dinosaur country and myriad rock formations.  Temperature 100!!  That was on Monday.  Today was almost as bad and we chose to explore a couple of places in the heat of the day.  Not real smart.

Just a few miles north of town and a few miles off the beaten path is the  Moonshine Arch.  We had to walk up a hill about .8 miles but it was worth the effort. The arch is about 85 feet long and 40 feet above our heads.

Back into town and out again on the other side we headed up Dry Fork Canyon past a memorial “Remember the Maine”, a ship that was blown up in Havana Harbor in 1898.  Another flag flies from atop a tall canyon wall opposite the memorial.  This is a very patriotic area!

In Dry Fork Canyon are Native American Petroglyphs from the Fremont culture which were created over 1,000 years ago.  The trail up was a true rock climb with trail markings of ribbon in bushes and twine strung between wooden dowel rods. But we were very close to the canyon walls where the petroglyphs were located.  

We thought about eating dinner out but every restaurant that John called did not require their servers to wear masks and we were not comfortable going to any of them.  On top of that, John had been in town and very few places or people wore masks. We decided to leave a day early and go somewhere where people understand the meaning of the word pandemic.