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Moki Dugway: Bluff, UT Video #1

MOKI DUGWAY is the first video in my five-part series on some awesome features near (or in) Bluff in extreme southeastern Utah. The first four sites are almost adjacent to each other. They are closer to Mexican Hat than they are to Bluff. Video #1: Moki Dugway    • Moki Dugway: Bluff, UT Video #1   Video #2: Goosenecks State Park    • Goosenecks State Park: Bluff, UT Video #2   Video #3: Muley Point Overlook    • Muley Point Overlook: Bluff, UT Video #3.   Video #4: Valley of the Gods    • Valley of the Gods: Bluff, UT Video #4   Video #5: Bluff Fort - forthcoming Moki Dugway [I love the name!] is a challenging, narrow gravel road with 10% grades and switchbacks that takes just three miles to climb 1200 feet up a mesa. It was built in the 1950s by Texas Zinc Minerals as a route for ore trucks hauling uranium and vanadium from Cedar Mesa to the processing plant near Mexican Hat. “Moki” is a local term for the Ancient Puebloan people who inhabited the Colorado Plateau hundreds of years ago. A “dugway” is a roadway carved into a hillside. There are no guardrails. You have to drive Moki Dugway if you want to take the shortest route, Hwy 261, from Mexican Hat to, say, Natural Bridges National Monument. But many people experience Moki Dugway for the adventure of it. For my videos I used an iPhone 11 Pro mounted on a phone holder on the dash of my Jeep. Watch the vibration of the dash and listen to the rattles and bumps to get an idea of the roughness of the gravel road. Vehicles crept along the road, nothing faster. I went up AND down Moki Dugway. On my way UP the mesa, the phone overheated in the direct sunlight and quit about 90% of the way up! Rats! But going back DOWN, the phone did not balk, and I recorded the whole descent. The video includes both trips. The perspectives and experiences are definitely different. On the way down, I stopped at the overlook near the top and took photos and videos, none of which can give an adequate impression of the spectacular view! Going downhill you get a much better view of the valley below and a realization of how high up you are and how you must really concentrate on your driving. Some passengers might not want to look out the side windows! At the top of Moki Dugway is the gravel road to the Muley Point Overlooks. And at the bottom of Moki Dugway is the gravel road to the Valley of the Gods. Enjoy my video of Moki Dugway! Watch for the other videos in the series coming soon. And I hope you’ll click on my Subscribe icon. I have over 120 videos on my YouTube channel in various categories/playlists, emphasizing the Old West, natural and human history out West, the Civil War, and others. Check ‘em out!    / stagecoacher   Specifically, I have a direct link at the end of this video to my Natural History Out West video playlist on the channel.    • Natural History Out West   And visit my website for details on all my Western and Civil War novels, as well as links to information on the Old West, the Civil War Afloat, fiction writing, etc. Look for the "B Troop" icon at the end of the video. https://jimjanke.com Jim