After leaving MMM we headed to Pine Valley to find a road back to Cedar. We found there are no roads through Pine Valley but did take some pictures of the famous church that was built like an upside down boat.
We turned around and found a dirt road to Pinto. We knew there was a road that turns off of highway 56 that goes to Pinto but we had never driven on the road so it was only a hunch that it would lead us back. There was a sign to tell us that Pinto was 12 miles up the road. On the dirt road we passed a car and as we each had to pull to the far side of the road in order to pass the people in the car had
grouchy looks on there faces that looked like they were mad at us for
not pulling over far enough. Seven miles up the dirt road we found out why those people looked so grouchy, the road was impassible due to snow and they were probably just bewildered.
We turned around and headed back to Pine Valley and back towards Enterprise. We found another dirt road to Pinto and decided to see how far this road would take us. The whole drive we were just waiting for snow to cut off the road around any corner but there wasn't any snow on the road and when we came upon a couple houses we were amazed that the dirt roads did actually lead to something.
I took a picture in amazement as the first roofs appeared through the trees. Its really hard to see the houses in the picture but we were so excited to finally make it to Pinto.
Pinto has a couple houses and signs for the 3 or 4 roads that lead to Pinto. Who knew such a small town in the middle of nowhere needed so many roads. When we were outside of "downtown" Pinto we came upon this two story brick house. After reading the historic site marker we found out that Pinto use to be a big stop for people traveling through southern utah. The house was built as an informal hotel and boarding house, yet now it rarely has cars pass by.
We did eventually find our way back to highway 56 and found we weren't that far from Cedar. Normally it takes 40 mins to drive home but since we had nothing else to do and decided to find a new route home it only took us 3 hours.
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