Nine Mile Canyon is a place with many secrets. To begin with... it’s really forty miles long. The name doesn’t have anything at all to do with its length. It
comes from a nine mile triangulation survey conducted by F.M. Bishop, who was a topographer with John Wesley Powell during a government sponsored expedition in 1869. It was just two years later that Powell visited the region a second time, gaining
Nine Mile Canyon is worth visiting for the scenic beauty alone. But as Mike Bliss said... Wait, there’s more: