Located about half way between the town of Escalante, UT east to Hole-In-The-Rock Road is the Escalante Heritage Center. It consists of an outdoor interpretative center showing and describing the Mormon efforts to reach the San Juan area of southeast Utah.
This post relates to my trip this year to Hole-In-The-Rock. Check it out if you haven read it. http://macaloney.blogspot.com/2020/03/i-made-it-to-hole-in-rock.html?m=1
Look at how narrow the wagon was for the Mormon travelers headed down and through Hole-In-The-Rock.
Above is a phone of the panel at the Escalante Heritage Center.
Zoom in if you don’t have a big screen to view it on. Everyone out of the wagon. Children sit watching from a safe distance as the father leads the draft horses from the wagon and the mother has a riding horse holding back on the wagon as it heads down the steep Hole-In-The-Rock.
Above is a phone of the panel at the Escalante Heritage Center.
This next picture shows the strain in the draft horse faces as they do their best to hold back the wagon as it slips and slides down the opening to the Colorado River.
Above is a phone of the panel at the Escalante Heritage Center.
This picture shows the two other ways to get to the San Juan area and the red line is the shorter route crossing the Colorado River at the base of Hole-In-The-Rock.
Not much room in there!
The pictures I took in my other blog post does not do the steepness of the trail justice. I hope these pictures puts the trail at this point into perspective.
Happy Trails.
Brent
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