The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for Utah on Wednesday, seeks dominion of a path in Bureau of Land Management territory that was closed to motorized use in 2007 due to damage at nearby archaeological sites. The section starts at Recapture Dam and goes south for about 3 miles, County Commissioner Phil Lyman said.
The lawsuit says the path was first put on official maps as a road by the U.S. Army in 1886. Before that, it was used as a thoroughfare by American Indians. The Army and settlers used it to travel and move goods and livestock, the lawsuit states.