What:
Utah state
Route 12 Scenic Byway is a 123-mile-long state starting at it southwest end at
highway 89 near the small town of Panguitch, from here its travers all the way
to it northeast end at highway 24 near the town Torrey.
This southern
Utah's road pass by 2 National Park, Bryace Canyon at the south side and
Capitol Reef at the north side. It is the gateway to the large Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument area, State Parks, small rural pioneer
origin communities, large open Plateau, Dixie National Forest, and the scenic high
Escalante Mountains range.
Link to my highway
12 Blog link
There are so
many things to see and visit along this drive but the drive itself is tourist
destinations unto themselves, this is why it was also designated an
All-American Road.
Boulder, Utah situated south
of the Boulder Mountain, nestled between (and within) land of the BLM, Forest
Service, and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, you can find the
small town of Boulder. It is small, isolated, remote, and spectacular old
pioneer farmers town. The first white settlement began in 1889, with Boulder
incorporated as a town in 1958. As of the 2020 census, the town population was
227.
Boulder claims
to be the last community in the continental United States to receive its mail
by mule train. Completion of a road in 1939 opened Boulder to car traffic from Escalante.
The northern portion of Highway 12 over Boulder Mountain was only paved in
1985.
You can find here few places to eat and night accommodation as well as Anasazi State Park Museum and the start of the Burr Trail Rd. that leads deep east all the way to the south remote tip of Capitol Reef Nation Park.
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