Accommodations are available at the historical Sperry Chalet or the Granite Park Chalet. This implies I leave Alpine about 4:30 AM in the summer, drive for 45 minutes and after that hike in for 45 minutes. A very reliable strategy for doing this exact thing is to utilize a set of gang hooks and live worms. It was known that in 1852 the very first gold was found in Powell County on a creek.