SNOW Canyon, north of St. George, didn't even have road access until the early 1940s.
The Washington County News of July 23, 1942 stated that the road to Snow Canyon wasn't open until the summer of 1942. Likely, the outbreak of World War II delayed plans to oil all the road to the newly found scenic attraction.
Snow Canyon was made a Utah State Park in 1958. In an area filled with National Parks, like Zion, Bryce and Grand Staircase-Escalante, it would likely be a national park in any other state ...
Snow Canyon is not named for frozen water, but for two early settlers and leaders, Lorenzo and Erastus Snow.
It features 16 miles of trails, offers a campground -- open year round and some volcanic rock features. Rock climbing, biking and horseback riding are also popular in the Park.
-The volcanic cinder cones in the greater area could have been destroyed in the 1940s ...
"Scenic enthusiasts don't want their mountain cut down" was a March 29, 1941 headline in the Salt Lake Telegram newspaper.
State road workers had been ready to take away the cinder cones shovel by shovel full, to help with roadbase in the area.
However, residents protested taking the volcanic material away and argued they were tourist attractions of their own.
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