Steep Grade on U.S. 6 between Price & Provo


		Steep Grade on U.S. 6 between Price & Provo This is part-three 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. Passport America - Discount 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-three 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 Steep grade on US-6 east of Provo, Utah Many RV's are dragging boats while others are dragging 4-wheelers. Those heading out for a big weekend are climbing while we are falling. Steep grade on US-6 east of Provo, Utah Incessantly falling we continue down the grade. The rock strata continues to change. Steep grade on US-6 east of Provo, Utah Note that it is a light color above and red color a few miles away on the right. Rock formations have changed along US-6 east of Provo, Utah Within a few miles rock strata has changed again. Wasatch Mountains As we near the valley we begin to see snow capped mountains. However, we continue to fall. Wasatch Mountain Range Passport America - Discount Camping Club This is part-three 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 Mike & Joyce Hendrix Until next time remember how good life is. Click here for more Utah travellogs More Utah Adventures Some Key West Adventures More 2007 Travel Adventures Mike & Joyce Hendrix Mike & Joyce Hendrix who we are We hope you liked this page. If you do you might be interested in some of our other Travel Adventures: Mike & Joyce Hendrix's home page Travel Adventures by Year Travel Adventures by State Plants Marine-Boats Geology Exciting Drives Cute Signs RV Subjects Miscellaneous Subjects We would love to hear from you......just put "info" in the place of "FAKE" in this address: FAKE@travellogs.us Until next time remember how good life is.