http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Utah/Dead-Horse-Point-State-Park/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Utah , Dead Horse Point State Park en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:16:37 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:16:37 UTC Today I explored Dead Horse Point State Park and the northern part of Canyonlands NP. It was another full day and Irsquom pretty wiped out but as my Dad would say Itrsquos a GOOD tired Even though the places I went today are only 20 or so miles ldquoas the crow fliesrdquo it was about 45 miles from the end of the road at the Grand View Point Overlook back to town.I planned to take i http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Dead-Horse-Point-State-Park/blog-338155.html The photo workshop ends with a midday visit to Dead Horse Point State Park near Canyonlands. The peninsula of land overlooks the Colorado River some 2000 feet below. The river twists and turns among outlines of dirt roads that trace their way across the desert. A legend says that the point was used as a natural corral for wild horses. The cowboys picked the best ones then left the other horses t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Dead-Horse-Point-State-Park/blog-221518.html Dead Horse Point State Park is one of those state parks where when you are at it you can't help but wonder how it is not a national park. It's probably because so much of southern Utah is already a series of national parks and something needed to be saved for the state. Beautiful park. According to the site GoUtah The name of the park comes from the legend that cowboys once chased wild horses http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Dead-Horse-Point-State-Park/blog-207422.html Von Cortez Colorado machen wir uns auf nach Moab Arizona wo wir 3 Tage verbringen. Die Hauptattraktion in dieser Gegend sind der Canyonlands National Park und der Arches National Park. In den Suedteil des Canyonlands National Park fuhren wir gestern heute besuchen wir den Nordteil. Die gewaltige CanyonLandschaft hier ist nicht leicht zu beschreiben weshalb wir Major Powell zitieren der vo http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Dead-Horse-Point-State-Park/blog-91934.html 6606 An auspicious date this one the 62nd anniversary of the Normandy landings and the cleverly scheduled release here of the remake of The Omen at the cinemas. For our part we marked the evil day by travelling route 666 out of Utah and into Colorado. We were only mildly spooked by the number of ravens flying around though fortunately they were not the eyeball pecking variety.We had travelled http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Utah/Dead-Horse-Point-State-Park/blog-65016.html