Utah Heritage Foundation

UHF members, trustees, and staff will be headed to Cedar City and beyond this year to experience preservation in Iron County on our 2011 Road Trip on Saturday, June 25.  We hope you'll consider joining us for this one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes guided tour of some of the renowned and lesser known historic sites.  We've got a full day lined up along with some fun surprises and special guests.

It's also a BIG weekend in "Festival City USA" (Cedar City's moniker) with the opening of the Utah Shakespeare Festival on Friday, June 24, and a weekend-long music festival, Groovefest. 

So if you're a fan of live music, live theater, and preservation, this trip is for you.  "To be or not to be" on our Road Trip?  That is the question.  If you want to be, check out the full line-up on our website and register today.  For the first time, we are offering a children's rate so we hope you'll make it a family outing!

Cobble Crest may be a national treasure.  Are there any other outdoor dance pavilions so little altered in Utah?  Were there ever any small open-air dance pavilions elsewhere in the U.S.?  Apparently not, if a quick email survey of other Partners in the Field is any indication.  These dance venues seem to be unique to Mormon country.

Of the few outdoor dance pavilions left in Utah, only one other is still in use:  the Big Apple in Torrey, and it was reconstructed.  Kanarraville’s Cobble Crest appears to be almost unchanged from when Iva Williams Wood built it in the 1930s.  That’s a good thing when nominating a structure to the National Register of Historic Places.  And this place appears to be National Register-worthy.