A day with the Fremont Indians

Today's journey was across Interstate 70 (120 miles of NO services) to visit the site of a major Fremont Indian settlement, dating from 1,000 years ago.  First we drove over Ruthie's favorite natural landscape, the Waterpocket Fold, while driving west on 70.

As we arrived at Utah's Fremont Indian State Park & Museum......there was a problem.  Didn't just happen, actually happened around 1986 when the engineers who designed I-70, decided to use 2/3s of Five Finger Ridge for raising the highway bed.  It turns out that Five Finger Ridge was the location of the Fremont's settlement.  All bad news, except at least many of the artifacts including pottery, hunting tools, and baskets were "discovered", and saved for inclusion in the future museum.  We would hope that today, such a horrible decision would not be made.



The museum had very interesting artifacts and was surrounded by rock cliffs with petroglyphs from 400 AD all the way to the mid 1800s.

For the night we pulled into the local National Forest campground and discovered a very nice Castle Rock campground.  We'll need to remember this next time, for a convenient stop over.