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County Road S-2: Box Canyon
Dry Fall, Box Canyon
Running just east of County Road S-2, Box Canyon (one of two in the state
park) connects Blair Valley on the north with Mason Valley on the south.
It probably served as an Indian footpath until the Mormon Battalion arrived
in 1847. This unit of the U.S.Army, led by Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke,
had to bring wagons with equipment through the canyon. The soldiers had only
hand tools to do the job, which they finished in a day. Besides widening the
passageway between rock walls, the soldiers blazed a bypass trail around an
imposing dry waterfall.
This portion of the Mormon Trail became a route for emigrants to California
during the gold rush and also for the Butterfield Overland Stage in the 1850s.
Major use ended when a trail and the
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