11/3 Field Trip - Stateline & Irontown
Field Trip/Hike | Available (Membership Required)
This field trip is only for those students registered for the Southern Utah Ghost Towns class. You must sign up to attend. All participants should plan to arrive at the far east side of the Udvar Hazy parking lot at 7:45 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. time of departure for instructions and directions, as well as to consolidate cars for carpooling.
BRING A LUNCH and if you have an all-wheel drive or 4WD vehicle please plan to transport carpoolers who don't have one.
By registering for this activity, you agree to the release of liability as specified - CLICK HERE for liability agreement. NO DOGS ALLOWED on field trips, per Utah Tech policy.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, Field trip to Stateline and Irontown in Iron County Utah.
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 51 miles on SR 18 to Beryl Junction, then turn west on SR 56 and drive 16.4 miles* to Modena, Utah where we will stop and briefly discuss this town’s history, then drive north about one mile on a dirt road to the Modena Cemetery where we will stop to view graves. Then we will travel about 15 miles* north on a BLM dirt road to an unmarked junction, then drive one to two miles west to Stateline ghost town. Where we will learn about the town’s history. We will then drive 16 miles south to SR 56, then drive 34.9 miles* east to the Old Irontown Historic Site where we will learn more about its history. All wheel drive or 4WD vehicles are recommended on the BLM dirt road, although passenger cars could conceivably make the trip, depending on road conditions. Arrive back in St. George by 3:30 or 4 p.m. Don't forget to pack a lunch and water!
*Distances approximate
Loren Webb
Loren is a native of St. George. He serves as a Washington County Historical Society board member and teaches three classes for ICL. He is a retired Clark County (NV) School District 7th grade U.S. History/World Geography teacher. Loren has been a reporter in community journalism in Southern Nevada, Southern and Southcentral Utah for 14 years.
- Master of Arts Degree in Communications, December 1981, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism Education and a minor in History, December 1979, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- History/Geography 7 Instructor, Saville Middle School, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2004 to May 2020
- State of Nevada Professional License and endorsements in Speech, History of the U.S. and the World, Journalism and Communication
- Utah Professional Educator License, Level 2, endorsements in Journalism, Speech and History
- English/Journalism instructor, Uintah High School, Vernal, Utah, August 2001 to August 2004
- President, Washington County Historical Society, St. George, Utah, January 2021 to March 2023
- Served on a volunteer basis from 1992 to 1996 as chairman, Washington County Centennial History Committee, which worked with two authors (Doug Alder and Karl Brooks) to update the history of Washington County, Utah as part of a Utah State Historical Society project to update the county histories of all 29 counties of Utah
- Co-taught History of Utah's Dixie (evening course) with local historian Bart Anderson from January to March 1991 under direction of Dixie College History Professor Robert Slack