Traveling U.S. 6 from Price to ProvoThis is part-two of a four-part series of travel logs covering the down hill grade from Price to Provo, Utah on US-6: The other travel logs in this series are here: Soldier Summit ** US-6 Price to Provo ** Steep grade on US-6 ** Price to Provo on US-6 May 25, 2007. We are staying at Lakeside RV-Park on west Center Street in Provo (next door to Utah Lake State Park located on Utah Lake). We forgot all about Memorial Day until late last week when "the lights came on". Joyce immediately got on the cell-phone and started trying to locate a place for us to settle in for the long Memorial Day weekend. She got lucky and found the last vacancy at Lakeside RV-Park. That is why we are here but we are happy to be here. It is a nice park costing 27.41 per-night for FHU and plenty of shade from mature cottonwood trees. Down the street is Utah Lake State Park where rates are $18 per-night for water & electric and central dump station. They were full or we would have probably been there. Either would be just fine, in our opinion, although Lakeside RV is much nicer and overflows with more expensive RV's -- if you get my drift.
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Camping Club We overnighted in the Wal Mart parking lot in Price, Utah last night then got back on U.S. 6 and continued on our way to Provo, 75 miles away. We noticed that we were climbing when we left Price. I can't remember how long we climbed but I remember seeing an elevation sign that said "Elevation 7,700" at the time we commented on the elevation sign but did not understand why it was there. We should have known --- we were on Soldier Summit. Shortly we knew why the elevation sign was there. We started seeing road signs warning of a steep grade ahead. Those signs are something that RV'ers pay attention to. Anyway, we are on top of what turns out to be a tremendous grade. We started dropping at that sign and didn't stop dropping until we exited on I-15 some 35-miles away. I can't think of any grade that we have been on that stretched out for so long, it just went on and on while we dropped 3,000 feel in elevation. This is part-two of a four-part series of travel logs covering the down hill grade from Price to Provo, Utah on US-6: The other travel logs in this series are here: Soldier Summit ** US-6 Price to Provo ** Steep grade on US-6 ** Price to Provo on US-6
Grade on US-6 heading into Provo, Utah
The sedimentary rock formations continue to change as we fall.
Grade on US-6 heading into Provo, Utah
Along this stretch the RR is following the highway and the river indicating to me that we are descending on about a 2% grade.
RR Tunnel along US-6 between Price and Provo, Utah
When the grade gets steeper than 2% the RR has to veer away from the highway through these tunnels in order to maintain a grade of no more than 2%.
Grade on US-6 heading into Provo, Utah
It is not long before the tracks are following the highway once again. The layers of sedimentary rock continue to change a we fall.
RR Tunnel along US-6 between Price and Provo, Utah
Again the train has to enter tunnels and head away from the highway in order to maintain their 2% grade.
5% Grade on US-6 heading into Provo, Utah
You will note that this steeper grade does not have the RR accompanying it. By the way you can not see the 5% grade it is out of sight to the left. We are still watching as the sedimentary rock strata changes.
This is part-two of a four-part series of travel logs covering the down hill grade from Price to Provo, Utah on US-6: The other travel logs in this series are here: Soldier Summit ** US-6 Price to Provo ** Steep grade on US-6 ** Price to Provo on US-6
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