The drive west from Elgin is winding, tree-lined, and scenery-packed with rock outcroppings bordering the narrow unpaved road. When you come to the little white Frontier Church, you've made it to Hewins. In 1886 the Santa Fe railway made a station stop here for shipping cattle owned by Ed Hewins, one of the largest cattle ranchers in the world at the time.

Here's the route to get you from Hewins to Cedar Vale.