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Pony Express route.....

cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

Cruizah!
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~160 from Faust to Wendover, ~120 in the dirt. It can be done in under 3 hours if you move. 4-5 if you take your time. The majority of the road is high-speed dirt where 40-60 mph speeds are easy to maintain.
 
TRNDRVR

TRNDRVR

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Thanks for the info. I might do it on my next weekend, which is Tuesday and Wednesday.

I want to drive out to the casinos on Tuesday, (no I don't gamble) let my kids swim in a pool somewhere, eat a buffet dinner and breakfast, and then cruise through the desert on the way home.

Just seems like something fun to do with the kids.

Thanks again,
Dan.
 
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Tacoma said:
Right on. Sadly , the cool lava tubes near Fish Springs are closed to access. :( No venturing off the road. :mad:
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The what??

Are you referring to the hot springs?



For swimming, Blue Lake is alone the way, nice and warm, not too deep and fun to swim in!

Blue Lake:
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Tacoma

Tacoma

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No...

Just past Fish Springs, when the road goes north, and then turns west-- right at the tip of that little range, there are lava tubes up the hill a bit. They're pretty cool, but the last trip out there, there were signs saying you couldn't leave the road. :(
 
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Tacoma said:
No...

Just past Fish Springs, when the road goes north, and then turns west-- right at the tip of that little range, there are lava tubes up the hill a bit. They're pretty cool, but the last trip out there, there were signs saying you couldn't leave the road. :(
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I know exactly where you are referring to... the location of the Wilson Health Springs.

1. What the hell is a lava tube??

2. Are they north or south of the PET?
 
Tacoma

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Lava tubes are voids left by gases. One of them was big enough to sit 5 people in.

They are south of the PET... If I remember right , north is kind of.. plains. :D


Blue Lake is worth the drive too. Strange to see all that water out there in the middle of all that desert.
 
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Tacoma said:
Lava tubes are voids left by gases. One of them was big enough to sit 5 people in.
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I'll have to check that out... As of 1983 the only road dropping south of the PET at that point was a gravel pit 1/8th of a mile off of the PET. Nothing else is noted.

Tacoma said:
They are south of the PET... If I remember right , north is kind of.. plains. :D
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Plains? this is Utah jack-ass! We have mud flats and salt flats!

The Wilson Heath Hot Springs are .6 miles north of the PET road, you turn at the old school bus. The road is often impassible

Tacoma said:
...Strange to see all that water out there in the middle of all that desert.
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Not to mention running into a hundred dudes in SCUBA gear :eek:
 
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Don B

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Southern Utah
Can you still get into Wilson's? I haven't been out there for about twelve years, but last time I was by there they had berms pushed up in front of the road trying to keep you out.

Quite a bit of history just with the school buses. There is one right next to the highway and another one in next to the hot springs. These buses were brought in by a group of hippies in the 1960's. They decided the hot springs would be a good place to squat until the local ranchers got together and decided they didn't really want the hippies for neighbors. They invited them to leave...at gun point.

Wilson's itself, we always called it Doc Wilson's, was once a pretty good sized resort when the PET was part of the Lincoln Highway. Another story from out there, this one may just be a myth, is that a ranger went walking north from the hot springs and broke through the crust and vanished, never to be seen again
 
Tacoma

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Kurtis Blow:

They're not down a road or anything. Just stay on the PET, and look to the left. They're up the hill a ways. :D


Scuba in the desert... I remember thinking this was the strangest place when we moved to UT!! :D
 
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rebarguy said:
Can you still get into Wilson's? I haven't been out there for about twelve years, but last time I was by there they had berms pushed up in front of the road trying to keep you out.
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I think in the fall or winter you could still drive into the spring, but any other time it is too muddy. As far as the legality... I'll look into it. I've never seen signs in the dozen or so times I've been out that way in the last... but that doesn't mean much. Of course you can still walk over :D

rebarguy said:
Quite a bit of history just with the school buses. There is one right next to the highway and another one in next to the hot springs. These buses were brought in by a group of hippies in the 1960's. They decided the hot springs would be a good place to squat until the local ranchers got together and decided they didn't really want the hippies for neighbors. They invited them to leave...at gun point.

Wilson's itself, we always called it Doc Wilson's, was once a pretty good sized resort when the PET was part of the Lincoln Highway. Another story from out there, this one may just be a myth, is that a ranger went walking north from the hot springs and broke through the crust and vanished, never to be seen again
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Great info! :cool:
 
Tacoma

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Yeah, the signs say something infuriating like "HIKING PROHIBITED STAY ON ROAD" or something. It's all rocks up there, you can't drive on it, WTF is hiking THERE going to do, for the 43 people a year that might take the trouble? Effing ridiculous if you ask me. :mad:

If I had never gone up there I don't know if I'd mind as much, but there is a kettle-shaped "room" on the hillside, with a chimney, that I wanted to take the kids to. :(
 
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