Drove today to the Dead Horse Point State Park and then to the Canyonlands National Park. Unfortunately the wildfire smoke persists and hazes over many of the magnificent views.
Dead Horse Point is where cowboys used to corral wild mustangs. The neck of the point was only 30 yards wide and the rest of the point is precipitous cliffs. The cowboys would drive the horses on to the point and then pick out the ones they wanted to keep. The views look down over 2000 feet to the canyons created by the Colorado River over the last ten million years.
The Northern portion of Canyonlands National Park was only 30 mile drive from the State Park. The area of the National Park is called “Islands in the Sky” with colorful canyons, mesas, buttes, and spires in the heart of southeast Utah’s high desert.
