4 WHEELING AT THE BARRACKS AND MAIL DROP

John and John and Sonja Black, where we ate lunch.

Looking west towards Zion, where it was raining.

Old friends meeting up. David Okerlund, Kenneth Hulet,

John Black, Sonja Black and John Spevak.

John at the start of the Barracks Ride.

Beautiful spot where rocks and water meet.

On September 19, John and Sonja Black came here and after John went home to get his keys to the 4 wheelers, so headed out for Mt. Carmel Junction. We went up over Cedar Mountain and down Highway 89. We asked all over if anyone knew where the Mail Drop Trail or the Barracks was, and no one had ever heard of it. Finally, John went up to another service station, and they told him to go just south of town and turn off, so we did, and found it. It was a beautiful ride. It looks like Zion, or the Paria Ride. We crossed the creek several times and went up a large sand hill. We ran into some old friends, David Okerlund and Kenneth Hulet and visited with them for quite a while. Some other people along the trail told us how to get to the Mail Drop, which is a place that the pioneer mailmen used to drop the mail down (a long way down) to another pony rider that would take the mail from the Arizona Strip to parts of southern Utah. This was the middle of the 1800's. We met up with the Dewey Cammack family eating lunch at this spot. If you take the Barracks trail to the end, you end up at the Corral Pink Sand Dunes, but we turned off close to the end to go to the Mail Drop. We ate at the Thunderbird Cafe when we were done and then drove home over Cedar Mountain, dodging deer all the way home at ten o'clock at night.