Dead Horse Point State Park
Day #2:
Still fresh with the enthusiasm of our day exploring Arches, we rose early again and headed for “Island in the Sky,” one of the three major divisions of Canyonlands National Park, about 30 miles from Moab. On the advice of one of the Moab park rangers, we took a slight detour along the way into a fantastic Utah state park called “Deadhorse Point.” Like most of you, I’m sure, we had never heard of it, but as we drove across ordinary looking pastureland for a few miles we were amazed when the ground suddenly fell away revealing a 60-mile view across what looked very much like the Grand Canyon. There were only a few souls about as we entered the Visitor Center to get our bearings, and that remained the case when we took the two-mile “rim hike,” most of which was along sheer canyon walls that dropped more than a thousand feet straight down, with no railings or restraining fences. The sun was just beginning to rise over the canyon rim and fill the formations with light as we shot the following photos. The water you can see is part of the Green River, which joins the Colorado a bit downstream in Canyonlands.
Still fresh with the enthusiasm of our day exploring Arches, we rose early again and headed for “Island in the Sky,” one of the three major divisions of Canyonlands National Park, about 30 miles from Moab. On the advice of one of the Moab park rangers, we took a slight detour along the way into a fantastic Utah state park called “Deadhorse Point.” Like most of you, I’m sure, we had never heard of it, but as we drove across ordinary looking pastureland for a few miles we were amazed when the ground suddenly fell away revealing a 60-mile view across what looked very much like the Grand Canyon. There were only a few souls about as we entered the Visitor Center to get our bearings, and that remained the case when we took the two-mile “rim hike,” most of which was along sheer canyon walls that dropped more than a thousand feet straight down, with no railings or restraining fences. The sun was just beginning to rise over the canyon rim and fill the formations with light as we shot the following photos. The water you can see is part of the Green River, which joins the Colorado a bit downstream in Canyonlands.
