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Published: July 12th 2019
BLM US89A
House Rock old Post Office and General StoreI cleared the Kaibab N Forest (at House Rock) and landed in the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Eastbound on AZ Hwy 89A heading for the Marble Canyon of the Colorado River by the town of Marble Canyon. I made a stop at the old House Rock Post Office and general store (both defunked) and saw the dirt road that takes a different route back to Fredona. The dominate feature all the way to the Colorado River is the Vermilion Cliffs on the North side. These large pinkish cliffs are a neat geologic formation.
I followed 89A Eastbound and saw the neat Vermilion cliffs on the left side. It was a very nice day so I burnt mega-pixels on the way. There was a small town or village of Vermillion Cliffs there also. At the small town of Cliff Dwellings there was a small area where people long ago built their homes (or dwellings) against the large rocks that had fallen down from above.
There was more Vermilion cliffs until I got to Marble Canyon City and the Colorado River at Marble Canyon. The old Navajo Bridge, that I used to drive over the Colorado River, I consider to
BLM US 89A
House Rock be one lane and a half; and with on-comming traffic I used to pull over and let the traffic pass before driving over the old bridge. They did a very good thing and turned the old bridge into a walking bridge after the new bridge was built. The views were very nice from the old walking bridge. There is large parking areas and facilities with water and rest rooms on both sides of the Bridge with the West side in the BLM much larger then the East side in the Navajo Nation (reservation)
.I drove South on US 89A a short ways to the Town of Bitter Springs where I got on US Hwy 89 South across the Navajo Nation on my way to Flagstaff.
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