I can remember a day trip from Las Vegas to St. George, Utah, about 1971. And yet, I don't remember this astonishing gorge!
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UPDATE: There's a reason that I don't remember this from 1971. A reader tells me:
I lived in St. George in 1971, less than a mile away from I-15
construction. I'm pretty sure that section of I-15 wasn't finished yet.
I think it opened in 1973. We were still driving up over Utah Hill to
get to Las Vegas at that point.
That Virgin River Gorge is an amazing display of ancient geology and
modern engineering. A lot of the vertical lines you saw in those sheer
rock walls were drill marks from the explosives. It was not a simple
thing, and took many years and mucho dinero to make an even halfway safe
route for the freeway.
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