We also visited the nearby Canyonlands National Park.
Canyonlands is dominated by 2 canyons carved by the
Green and Colorado rivers.
Its a landscape of mesas, fins, arches & spires.
We hiked in the desert heat to Mesa Arch.
An arch on the edge of a deep canyon.
Even up here which seems like the top of the world,
we found wildlife.
This is nearby Dead Horse Point State Park.
Legends says that the point was used as a corral for wild mustangs in the 1800's.
The cowboys rounded up the herd, pushed them across the
30 yard wide neck of land and fenced the neck with branches & shrubs.
some of the horses were left corralled on the waterless point,
where they died of thrist 2000 feet above the Colorado River.
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