LOCATION

Leaving Walgren Lake


Waypoint



Waypoints


Waypoint











Waypoint




Sacred Heart
Church
Stage
mileage





1.0



1.0


6.1











3.1




1.5
Total
mileage


27.9


28.9



29.9 to
34.0

35











38.1




39.6
INSTRUCTIONS & COMMENTARY


Reset your milometer as you join 420 Ln to head South.

A mile south of the lake entrance as you cross 530 Rd you will see an extensive prairie-dog town on your right (west).

The route now crosses successive numbered roads - 520, 510, 490, 480.

Turn left (east) on to 470 Rd. MAP click HERE

Over the next three miles or so you will cross 410 Ln and pass a number of ranch mailboxes. When you see Marcy’s, you’re approaching the next junction. This is a simple T, and you can’t miss it: you are surrounded by a set of feed lots and corrals.




Turn right (south) onto 390 Ln. You are now in the Mirage Flats area, where Old Jules first settled, in the mid-1880s.


A mile and a half along this road you’ll come to the Sacred Heart Church on your right. There is also one of the old metal highway signs "37 Tour", on your left.


When Old Jules deeded this plot to the church it seems that his main motivation was to ensure that Fr McNamara of Alliance, a stamp-collector like himself, would continue to visit and provide stimulating company. Jules himself had no time for any religion.








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