Salt Lake City to Green River, Utah

It was 51° when we got up this morning. While we were breaking camp, a small tour bus of Japanese tourists came into the park to look at the marina. I saw a couple of them walk back up to the marina entrance and take photos of the dumpsters there. Then a man stopped to take photos of us hitching up the trailer. We stopped at the dump station to empty our tanks and another Japanese man stopped to take photos of Mike at the dump station. Mike tried to explain to him what he was doing, but the man didn't speak English.

We left the campground at 10:20 and got on to I-80 East towards Salt Lake City and then got on to I-215 South and eventually to I-15 South to Spanish Fork. We stopped at a Five Guys at Spanish Fork for lunch about noon and then got gas at a Texaco station ($3.099 a gallon) there before getting onto US-6 South.

US-6 is a scenic highway and we had some great scenery today. The highway wound between the Uinta National Forest and the Manti-La Sal National Forest. 

We steadily kept climbing up through the mountains

until we started to see
snow still on the ground.

We kept climbing higher with snow covering everywhere you looked

until we reached Soldier Summit with an elevation of 7,477 feet.

The terrain began to change the farther down in elevation we went.

When we got down to Price, Utah and continued south, it began to look more desert-like.

We continued south on US-6 where it ended at I-70 just west of Green River, Utah.

We arrived here at Green River State Park at 3:00 and checked in at the entrance kiosk. We are in site 20 with water and electric hook-ups. The terrain wasn't the only change we had today, the temperature was a big change. It was 75° when we got here and had to turn on the A/C this afternoon. 

We had originally planned on driving east on I-80 on our trip home, but we've decided to take the southern route on I-70.