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"Utah's Dixie" usually refers to Washington County, highlighted in red on this county map of Utah. Southwestern Utah is in the upper Colorado River Basin.. Dixie is a nickname for the populated, lower-elevation area of south-central Washington County, the southwest corner of the State of Utah, bordering nearby Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west.
The Thompson Wash Rock Art District, known by the Bureau of Land Management as the Sego Canyon Rock Art Interpretive Site, [1] is a rock art site in Grand County, Utah, north of the town of Thompson Springs. It contains art from three different cultures: the Fremont, the Ute, and the Barrier Canyon Style. [2]
Dixie National Forest is a United States National Forest in Utah with headquarters in Cedar City. It occupies almost two million acres (8,000 km 2) and stretches for about 170 miles (270 km) across southern Utah. The largest national forest in Utah, it straddles the divide between the Great Basin and the Colorado River.
In 1959, the area of the park grew from the donation of 296 acres from Washington County to the State Parks Commission, and was subsequently increased with the purchases of nearby ranches. Originally called Dixie State Park, it was later renamed for Lorenzo and Erastus Snow, prominent pioneering Utah leaders. [1] [11]
The terrain slopes to the south and west; the lowest point in the state of Utah is located in the Beaver Dam Wash in Washington County, where it (seasonally) flows out of Utah and into Arizona, at 2,178 ft (664 m) ASL. [13] The county's highest point is Signal Peak in the Pine Valley Mountains, at 10,369 ft (3,160 m) ASL. [14]
Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness is a 50,232-acre (203.28 km 2) wilderness area located in the Dixie National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah.It is the fourth-largest wilderness area located entirely within the state (following the High Uintas Wilderness, Zion Wilderness, and Cedar Mountain Wilderness).
Utah Tech athletes are called Trailblazers (formerly the Rebels and Red Storm), and former Trailblazers Bradley Thompson and Brandon Lyon later played in major league baseball, while Bruce Hurst of Dixie High School later played for the Boston Red Sox as a pitcher, and then ended up managing the now-retired Zion Pioneerzz for its inaugural 1999 ...
Washington is a city in south central Washington County, Utah, United States and is a part of the St. George Metropolitan Area.The area is also known as Utah's Dixie because the Mormon pioneers who settled the St. George area came to the area to raise cotton, which was milled at the cotton mill in Washington.