Blogs from Canyonlands National Park, Utah, United States, North America - page 5

Canyonlands National Park is a larger version of Dead Horse Point State Park with greater elevations and less the horse corral. According to the site americansouthwest.net:"Canyonlands National Park covers a vast area of rock wilderness in southeast Utah, centered around the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers. Over millions of years, the rivers and their small tributaries have carved the flat sandstone rock layers into many amazing forms with a wide range of colors. The 530 square miles of the park contain countless canyons, arches, spires, buttes, mesas and a myriad of other spectacular rock formations." The Park is fairly new having only been designated in 1964. Until that time, it was relatively unvisited and unknown. Today, there are a few overlooks on long paved roads, but otherwise it's a park best viewed by 4x4 ... read more

Last few days at Indian Creek got a little rainy, which got in the way of my plans to send Excuse Station (ha ha, I know). For those of you interested in a photo montage illustrating every way to jam an off-width crack, check out Jeremy Frimer's Web Album ... thanks Jer, for the photo session! Rachel is in the pics too, but you have to look at the blurry belayer down below. We spent our rainday in Canyonlands, spending $80 US on a National Park Pass. Quick soapbox moment... this is up significantly from last year, but now the pass covers other areas like BLM and Forest Service. For those of you who don't spend a lot of time on public land, these areas are FREE... the new park pass gives you free access ... read more

A quick 180mile jaunt to Canyonlands and we managed to get to see this park the same day as Capitol Reef. The drive-able part of the park is viewed from 6000ft up on top of a Mesa called 'Island in the Sky'. The light was to our favour and we could see miles into the canyons and beyond to the La Sal mountains of Colorado far in the distance. ... read more