The Salisbury Family: Old Iron Town

Saturday, September 24

Old Iron Town

This past weekend the kids and me took a trip down to Cedar City to visit family. We went to Grandma's house in Old Iron Town first, which is a very small town. Vance, Coleen, Grandma, Me and the kids went for a walk just down the road to visit the Old Iron Town Ruins, we saw the beehive charcoal kiln remainders of a old furnace, foundry buildings and a old grinding stone. Later that day after making yummy pizza bits for lunch, we hike up to Lion's Mouth Cave. In the overhanging of the cave there are pictographs of a small anthropomorphic figure, a snake like figure and other simple drawings. The kids loved playing inside the cave area. Later that night Coleen had a fun treasure hunt planned for the kids to do, they got lots of fun crafts, a cute book with a picture of them in it, bubbles that are colored, stamps and a whole lot more. Thanks Coleen. The next day we went up to Cedar Breaks National Monument, it was pretty cool seeing the giant amphitheater that spans three miles and 2,000 feet deep. The kids also became Cedar Breaks Junior Rangers, they had to complete the Junior Ranger booklet. After completing it, Steve the forest Ranger had them repeat a pledge that they promise to not pick or dig up plants and take care of the parks. I sure have cute little rangers!! Cedar Breaks was gorgeous! I wish the pictures could do more it was beautiful. We also hike through a mountain forest to go to the Alpine pond, the trail was very pretty and shaded. A nice little hike for the kids. Later that night after dinner we went back to the hotel for a nice little swim. Madison is getting to be quite a good little swimmer. We had a wonderful trip.

Vance,Coleen,me,Madison and Hunter