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Show the bordering towns. Hence on Plate 9 ( in pocket) the recreational centers have been shown located considerable distances from the towns at points where the cattlemen and the visitors would most likely wish to make their headquarters while working or exploring the various sections of the Canyon Lands. The development of the recreational centers might well be in the ranch style, offering meals and lodging, camping supplies, pack and saddle animals, guides, gasoline and oil, and the like. The suggested landing fields indicated on the map are convenient to the development areas so that they might serve both airplane and automobile travel. From these centers horseback trails might lead to the various points of interest. The Elk Ridge center at an elevation of 8,500 feet might be primarily a summer- use area because of the heavy winter snows; the Grays Pasture- Junction Butte and the Lands End centers would have longer periods of use and the facilities and services could be provided on a year- round basis. The Needles, Hite, Hole in Rock, and Wahweap centers appear to be suitable for year- round use. Hite, with an average annual temperature of 59.7 degrees, seems to be an ideal site for a winter resort on the river and might become one of the two main centers for boating and fishing on the Glen Canyon Reservoir the year around. The other center might be on the wide water somewhere between Wahweap Creek and Last Chance Creek. Above Hite the recreational use of the Green and Colorado Rivers, or the reservoir to be formed by the proposed Dark Canyon Dam, would logically center at Moab and at or near Green River, Utah. Moab, with its scenic setting on the Colorado River and conveniently located to the many points of interest, seems destined to become an important recreational and tourist center. Only the Hite and Wahweap centers would be largely controlled in their development by the potential Glen Canyon and Dark Canyon Reservoirs. The importance of Hite might be materially increased by the creation of the Glen Canyon Reservoir. The development at the Wahweap site would depend almost entirely on the creation of the reservoir. There is little need for a recreational center at that point if the reservoir is not created. However, there might be a small camp on Warm Spring or Wahweap Creeks to serve the cattlemen and the ' • » 190 Figure 109.- Arch Canyon from Elk Ridge. |
