This field trip is only for those students registered for Ghost Towns of Southern Utah. Attendance will be taken the morning of the trip and if you are not on the class roster, you will not be allowed to attend.

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Tuesday, Oct. 14, Field trip to Hamblin and Holt cemeteries. New this year! Participants meet at 7:45 a.m. at the far east side of the Udvar Hazy parking lot. We will leave at 8 a.m. to carpool north on State Route 18, for 34 miles* to the Pinto turnoff, then drive east 3.1 miles on a gravel road to the Hamblin/Holt turnoff (unmarked), then left (north) onto a four-wheel-drive or 2 wheel drive high clearance vehicle dirt road and drive 7/10th of a mile to a dirt cross road (no sign) and turn left and drive 3/10 of a mile to a metal gate. Open the gate and then drive about 200 feet to the Hamblin Cemetery where we will visit graves and listen to a short lecture. We will then drive back to the gate and close it, then drive to the crossroad and turn north onto the dirt Forest Service Road 732 and drive about four miles* north to a Y junction and take the road to the left and head north one mile* to Holt Cemetery where we will stop to view graves and listen to a short lecture. From there, we will drive north two-three miles* to Bench Road (at 3320 East) and head west two miles* on Bench Road to SR 18 and southwest to Enterprise where we will stop at the Cottonwood C-store for a rest stop before returning back to St. George by 1 p.m.

*Distances approximate.