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Published: February 23rd 2021
Now this blog is from my 2017 travel camping adventure, but relevant to my current blogs.
According to Wikipedia, Comb Ridge is a geologic monocline fault running North-South about 80 miles from the Abajo Mountains in Southern Utah to near Kayenta, Arizona. There is a number of very old Puebloan cliff dwellings and other ruins along that fault. There is also a number of Tritylodont fossils there.
Going Westbound on Utah Hwy 95 from Blanding, the East Side of Comb Ridge has white sandstone rising upward above the surrounding area. When they built Utah Hwy 95 they used explosives to blast open that top sandstone to make the highway route possible. The land sunk over 600 feet down (West side) with a switchback going down through the reddish rock. (Note: there are strict "no parking" signs there.) At the bottom of the canyon is the rough 4X4 dirt San Yuan County Road 235 going north a ways; and South to US Hwy 163 in Utah. (Note: At the intersection of US Hwy 163, Comb Ridge is more under ground and less dramatic then Hwy 95.) At the bottom of Comb Ridge on Hwy 95; on the South side of
the highway is a very nice BLM free camp by some large cottonwood trees. Then on the top of the West side of the Comb Ridge canyon is a great view of miles of that monocline. I pulled off the highway there and got stuck in the sand and gravel there. I used a gravity assist to spin my wheels downhill to get back on the pavement.
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Comb Ridge, East side
