There is one handicapped parking place and about ten other spaces. The others were all taken by the time we got there at 9 a.m. on a Sunday. By the time we left at about 10 a.m., there were three open spaces.
There is a handicapped restroom for men and one for women. They are quite good but don't have running water.
There are signs all along the trial to orient you to what you are seeing. This is called Temple Quarry because this is the area where the Mormon pioneers took the granite to build the Salt Lake Temple about 1862.
Most of the people who visit the Quarry are expected to be Mormons, some of whom had ancestors who dug out the rocks.
This is a picture of the way the area usually looks in the summer at this location (borrowed from the church's website). However, right now it's bone dry.
Water was important in the quarry process. There was a barrier across the stream at one time. It looked like the drawing.
Now it looks like this:
There are other things to note here like the V shape of Cottonwood Canyon. V shaped canyons were formed by flowing water and U shaped canyons were formed by glaciers.
Another thing to note is that mountain goats have been transplanted into this area. I have been to three viewing parties each April and have yet to see any. If you do see them, it is from a great distance. They are just little dots moving on the sheer cliffs.
I took a picture of my husband near a beautiful tree.
And, that's all, folks!
