Exploring Canyonlands National Park

I'm beginning to get "rocked out" and suffering from visual overload.  For those of you who weren't counting, we've visited FIVE National Parks in a row ... Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Arches and Canyonlands.  Each one was unique and visually breathtaking.  We need take a break from canyons, balancing rocks, spires, fins, mesas, buttes, arches, pictographs, petroglyphs, cliff dwellings and pinnacles.  

Too windy for hats today

This morning we drove the 30 odd miles to the Canyonlands Visitor Center to stamp our passport and explore the Island in the Sky area of the park.  Island in the Sky is a broad mesa wedged between the Green and Colorado Rivers. Closest to the mesa's edge is the White Rim, a nearly continuous sandstone bench 1,200 feet below the Island.  Another 1,000 feet beneath White Rim are the rivers, shadowed by sheer canyon cliffs.  Unfortunately, the other two areas of the park, The Maze and The Needles, would take another couple of days to explore and we've run out of time.  I would come back to this area just to take the rafting tour down Cataract Canyon in The Rivers area of the park.

Grand View Point Overlook 

I love seeing colors in the desert

Upheaval Dome - Was it a meteor or upheaval of salt flats??  The jury is still out

Mesa Arch

I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm tired of hiking and sightseeing.

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