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Wolfe Ranch Cabin

Wolfe Ranch Cabin

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Wolfe Ranch Cabin

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Location: Grand County, Utah, United States

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1. Delicate Arch from Wolfe Ranch — Arches National Park

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2. Petroglyph Panel loop from Wolfe Ranch — Arches National Park

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3. Delicate Arch Trailhead – Delicate Arch loop from Moab

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Darin Graber

March 19, 2023

The Wolfe Ranch (later "Turnbow Cabin," after the first caretaker of Arches National Park who lived there) was built by injured Civil War veteran John Wesley Wolfe and his son. Though far from the first people to live in this area long inhabited by the Zuni, Hopi, Ute, Paiute, and other American Indian peoples, the Wolfes scraped together a ranch-based lifestyle in a climate that seems incompatible and inhospitable for it to most visitors today. A jarring juxtaposition to the busy Delicate Arch Trail crowds, a visit to the ranch is thought-provoking and worthwhile.

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March 13, 2019

"The Wolfe Ranch, also known as Turnbow Cabin, is located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, United States.

John Wesley Wolfe settled in the location in 1888 with his oldest son Fred. A nagging leg injury from the Civil War prompted Wolf to move west from Ohio, looking for a drier climate. He chose this tract of more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) along Salt Wash for its water and grassland - enough for a few cattle. The Wolfes built a one-room cabin, a corral, and a small dam across Salt Wash. For more than a decade they lived alone on the remote ranch. In 1906, Wolf's daughter Flora Stanley, her husband, and their children moved to the ranch. Shocked at the primitive conditions, Stanley convinced her father to build a new cabin with a wood floor.

The ranch on Salt Wash was established about that time under the Bar DX brand. With the arrival of Wolfe's daughter and son-in-law in 1906, the newer, surviving structures were built. However, the Stanley family moved to Moab in 1908. The family sold the ranch to Tommy Larson in 1910 and returned to Ohio. John Wolfe died on October 22, 1913, in Etna, Ohio at the age of eighty-four.

Larson eventually sold the ranch to Marvin Turnbow and his partners, Lester Walker and Stib Beeson. Turnbow helped with the first detailed geologic mapping of the area and partly because of this, early US Geological Survey maps show the name, "Turnbow Cabin." Wolfe's granddaughter, Ester Stanley Rison, visited the ranch in 1970 and provided information about the cabin's early history. As a result, the original name has been restored, and "Wolfe Ranch" appears on more recent maps." (Wikipedia)

Andreas

November 17, 2019

It is impressive to see how people used to live. It is worth reading the information boards.

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Location: Grand County, Utah, United States

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Wolfe Ranch Cabin

1. Delicate Arch from Wolfe Ranch — Arches National Park

2. Petroglyph Panel loop from Wolfe Ranch — Arches National Park

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