Saturday, July 22, 2006

Canyonlands & Dead Horse State Park

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Dead Horse Park

Dead Horse overlooks a magnificient view of a spectacular canyon. In the early days of western settlement, bands of wild horses roamed the plateau. Rumor has it cowboys corralled a band of horses and picked out the best ones & left the rest to die of thirst. Hense, the name Dead Horse park. The canyon is in the shape of a horseshoe. The river also loops through this horse shoe shape.



Canyonlands

The last stop on our tour of the Grand Circle is Canyonland. The plateau is separated by the Green & Colorado river. It is filled with a vast gouged-out basin of red rock, spires, cliffs & capped with white rim sandstone.

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