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Cold War military tests left a crater near Cedar City. Today, off-roaders drive through it

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Cold War military tests left a crater near Cedar City. Today, off-roaders drive through it
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For more than 50 years, thousands of off-road riders and hikers have crossed a broad, bare depression at Three Peaks Recreation Area. Sagebrush grew back. The city built a water tank. Pieces of metal stayed half-buried in the dirt. But few people passing through knew the Air Force had once set off an enormous explosion here.

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