The national parks become really quiet after Monument Valley and far less developed. The trails are mostly marked by stone cairns and occasional trail sign show the way. It does not matter very much anyhow what is national park or not. Every dozen miles dirt roads lead into side valleys and canyons and local climbers bolder rocks. The landscape has an amazing variety of snow capped mountains, Juniper doted plains and rocks from dark brown, over red to white colors forming canyons, needles or bridges. We drove from Monument Valley north to Bridges National Monument, took base in the small town of Monticello and explored the needle features of Canyonlands National Park. Heart of the landscape is the upstream part of the same Colorado river forming later Grand Canyon. Unfortunately it was still cold with temperatures
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