The Blue Dugway, a perilous dirt road in Wayne County, now part of Utah Highway 24. USHS collections.
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W H E N I WAS A CHILD LIVING IN Teasdale in Wayne County, the road that led from Rabbit Valley to Caineville provided the only way for settlers in Caineville to receive supplies and was the only link between the town of Caineville and the outside world. The road was primitive, ungraded, fit only for use by freight wagons of the Conestoga type, or buggies, or men on saddle horses. It passed through what is now the Capitol Reef National Park, down the bottom of a deep gully called Capitol Wash where the ledges were straight up from each side of the road and there was barely room for a wagon to pass along the bottom of the dry wash. After the road came out of the Waterpocket Fold at the bottom of Capitol Wash, it wound through a blue clay country where there stood a series of reef formations with a cap rock of sandstone and dark blue clay for a base. About two or three miles before the road reached Caineville, it passed along the face of a blue clay reef under the sandstone cap rock. Mr. King is an attorney in Salt Lake City.
