Mel Heaton

Friday, March 3, 2017

Posted by Mel Heaton at 4:16 PM

Mel Heaton: Mel Heaton grew up in Moccasin, AZ, where he spent happy days ranching and farming. Life in Moccasin was truly a family affair, living next to grandparents and growing up with cousins for friends. The time spent on horseback and the stories of his youth created a love within him for the Arizona Strip and all of the rich history intertwined in the southern Utah-northern Arizona area. Mel would become a proficient teller of local tales and eventually make the things he loved into a lifetime venture called The Honeymoon Trail Company. Mel spent 12 years working for the National Park Service at Pipe Springs, including one summer at Phantom Ranch in the Grand Canyon. In 1975, in cooperation with the NPS, he organized the first covered wagon train as a reenactment of the groups that traveled the last portion of the Honeymoon Trail from Pipe Springs to St. George. The Honeymoon Trail received its name from the hundreds of couples that traveled as far south as Safford, AZ, across the Colorado, through Kanab, Moccasin, and then Pipe Springs to the St. George Temple to be married. Mel had found his niche, and in 1978 he left the Park Service and founded The Honeymoon Trail Company.

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