Dead Horse Point

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The West and East Rim walk offers stunning views above the Colorado River. According to legend, the point was once used as a corral for wild mustang roaming the mesa. Cowboys rounded up these horse, herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck, which is only 30m wide, was then fences off with branches and brush, creating a natural corral surrounded by precipitous cliffs.Cowboys then chose the horse they wanted and for reasons unknown left the other horses corralled on the water-less point where they died of thirst within sight of the Colorado river 2000 feet below.

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Photos

Monitor and Merrimac
Said to resemble these ships

Dead Horse Point
West and East Rim walk

Dead Horse Point
Make your own lunch

Dead Horse Point
Big horn in the background

Dead Horse Point
Potash salt ponds in the valley.

Dead Horse Point
Note the branch and brush barrier to corral the horses.