Spectacular Scenery and Adventures in the Heart of the Dixie National Forest
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Welcome to THE DIXIE NATIONAL FOREST Credit: Cut-Out USFS, Background, Shaan Hurley Red Canyon: Spectacular Scenery and Adventures in the Heart of the Dixie National Forest The Dixie National Forest is the second largest National Forest in Utah, encompassing almost two million acres across 170 miles in southern Utah. 72 Bryce Canyon Credit: Shaan Hurley FISHLAKE NF FISHLAKE 15 Serving the Greatest Good of the 89 NATIONAL Loa FOREST 62 FISHLAKE NATIONAL FISHLAKE FOREST NATIONAL FOREST CAPITOL REEF Greatest Number in the Long Run 21 NATIONAL PARK Beaver 24 21 q Torrey Visitor Center When the Forest Service was created, Teasdale ! Torrey 24 there were about 760 million acres of Junction forestland. Today, there are still nearly 750 62 Highway 12 million acres of forestland. Sustaining the All American Road Singletree a Antimony Wildcat national forests during the last century ! Larb Hollow Visitor Center q x Pleasant Creek a 20 125 Lower while the country’s population grew by Jones Corral s Oak Creek a a Bowns Guard Station 1660 nearly 300 percent is a conservation 12 89 success story. 15 Cowpuncher x 140 s Homestead Blue Spruce x Hells Backbone 077 a Posey 153 Lake Anasazi SP Visitor Barker a Center 077 DIXIE NATIONAL Recreation a Boulder ! YOU ARE HERE FOREST Area 152 q 130 Parowan 153 Panguitch BOX-DEATH 143 149 Utah’s Patchwork HOLLOW Parkway National 017 56 Scenic Byway 049 WILDERNESS Highway 12 All American Road 076 White Red Canyon 132 Yankee Bridge 143 Visitor Center ASHDOWN Escalante a Meadows Pine Lake 12 GORGE Brian a q q WILDERNESS Head a a 2 Panguitch c 12 12 Escalante Lake North a Panguitch Red Interagency a Lake South Powell 56 Cedar Canyon Point Visitor Center 18 q 011 City Utah’s Patchwork Parkway BRYCE CANYON x 300 Highway 14 State 14 National Scenic Byway 89 Scenic Byway NATIONAL PARK Highway 12 CEDAR BREAKS ! All American Enterprise 088 Tropic NATIONAL 050 067 63 Cannonville Road ! Cedar Canyon a King Creek a Visitor Center 009 MONUMENT Deer Haven a Tropic Reservoir q ! Honeycomb Cannonville ! LEGEND Duck Duck Creek GRAND a Rocks 009 Visitor Center Henrieville Te-ah a Creek STAIRCASE- Pine Valley Forest 006 Ranger District 053 q 087 ESCALANTE Supervisor’s Office Navajo a a 18 a NATIONAL Cedar City Lake Ranger District District Ranger Spruces 14 MONUMENT Office Podunk Highway 14 State s Powell Paved Roads PINE VALLEY Scenic Byway Ranger District 035 Escalante Unpaved Roads MOUNTAIN 15 Ranger District Scenic Byway or Backway Pine Valley q Pine Valley Wilderness Areas Visitor Center a Recreation Area 15 Interstate Highway National Parks WILDERNESS & Monuments ZION 89 U.S. Highway Campground NATIONAL 62 State Highway Guard Station PARK 1660 County Road 18 89 Picnic Area 017 Forest Route 9 Point of Interest N COTTONWOOD Virgin FOREST Visitor Center Scale WILDERNESS Springdale Ski Area Miles 9 0 2.5 5 10 15 20 9 q St. George St George Interagency SPANNING FROM HIGH VisitorTO CenterLOW 59 Kanab 89 Considered15 the rooftop of the Grand Staircase with the highest plateaus in North America, the defining geology of the Dixie National Forest includes the Colorado Plateau, Mohave Desert, and the Great Basin. Elevations range from 2,800 feet near St. George, Utah to 11,322 feet at Blue Bell Knoll on Boulder Mountain. The Aquarius Plateau is one of the largest high-elevation plateaus in the United States, and contains hundreds of small lakes at 10,000 to 11,000 feet above sea level. ALL PART OF DIXIE The Forest exists as separate tracts of land in distinct locations because Capital Reef Monument the Forest Service consolidated four formerly independent National Forests Credit: Shaan Hurley to create the Dixie National Forest in the 1930s. The climactic extremes in Why is This National Forest in Utah this forest host a diversity of vegetation: sparse, desert plants at the lower Named Dixie? elevations to stands of low-growing pinyon pine and juniper dominating the mid-elevations. At the highest points, aspen and conifers such as pine, Settlers who belonged to the Church of Jesus spruce, and fir predominate. Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) were sent from the Southern United States (south of the Mason-Dixon line) to the southwest corner In all endeavors, the Forest Service remains grounded in the belief that of Utah to grow cotton to provide clothing if natural resources are used wisely, they can be sustained for generations materials for the Church members. The warm to come. climate and their newly planted cotton fields reminded them of their hometowns. They decided to share their region’s nickname with 252 MI / 3 HR 45 M Distance To Red Canyon Visitor Center this land and called it “Utah’s Dixie.” From Nearby Cities Red Canyon Visitor Center to Mormon cotton factory workers Las Vegas, Nevada: 246 miles Credit: USFS Red Canyon Visitor Center to Salt Lake City, Utah: 252 miles Credit: Cut-Out, USFS, Left: Map courtesy of Kmusser YOU ARE 246 MI / 3 HR 45 M HERE Dixie National Forest Caring for the Land and Serving People.