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Hole-in-the-Rock Pioneer Trail Terminus

Lake Powell, UT

Pioneers in 1879-80 cut and blasted a wagon passage through this narrow cleft above the Colorado River. Reaching the end of the modern road requires a long rough drive, but the route is one of Utah's most improbable pioneer-engineering stories.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: blm.gov/visit/hole-rock-road

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