Burr Trail
The Burr Trail - the full name of the Burr Trail Scenic Backway - is a historic overland route in Garfield County , Utah .
course
Beginning in Boulder on Utah State Route 12 , the first portion of the 68 mile (109 km) route runs southeast in the Deer Creek valley east of Duffrey Mesa. Less than a mile after turning off the State Route, the boundary of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is reached. After crossing Deer Creek, the road turns east and takes a sharp curve into Long Canyon, which runs for a distance of seven miles between Rattlesnake Bench and King Bench. After following this canyon in a northeasterly direction, it enters the White Canyon Flat through a gap in the Circle Cliffs , through which the last section in this national monument is traversed in a southeasterly direction. Immediately after crossing the border to Capitol Reef National Park , the bitumen layer ends, the rest of the route in the national park including the Burr Trail Switchbacks is unpaved. The track crosses the Waterpocket Fold and follows the course of Notom-Bullfrog-Road and Utah State Route 276 in a southerly direction to its end point in Bullfrog in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area .
history
The connection between the confluence of Bullfrog Creek and Halls Creek in the Colorado River is named after the settler John Atlantic Burr, who used this route since 1876 for driving cattle between high summer pastures near Boulder and winter pastures in the valley of the Colorado River.
