Blogs from Utah, United States, North America

Utah 2020 9 Utah Road scenery 2020 9 Arches National Park, Utah 9-17-2020 Arches National Park, Utah 8 gio sang toi bat dau di den Arches National Park. Phong canh Utah tren duong di dep mac dau toi da di Utah may lan truoc. Toi ghe qua Castle Valley vi doi nui voi dat da do tuyet dep. Tu day toi di thang den Arches National Park va den noi khoang 3pm. Arches National Park: park nay co hon 2,000natural sandstone arches. Park nay nam tren salt bed tao nen spires cach day 300 trieu nam. Salt flat day ca ngan feet tren Colorado Plateau ben canh song Colorado cach day khoang 300 trieu nam.khi ma bien chay qua vung nay. Nuoc bat dau bot hoi va sandstone bat dau tu lai de tu tu tao ... read more

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 possible. Then the land sunk over 600 feet down (West side) with a switchback going down through the reddish rock. At the bottom of the canyon is ... read more

The Potash Road includes the paved Utah Hwy. 279 (West of Moab, Utah) to the Potash Mine main facility by the Colorado River. Then the private mine dirt road continues South West where the BLM rough dirt road goes upward through the Colorado River overlook; then up to the Canyonlands National Park. The Potash Road officially ends at the junction of The Shaffer Trail and the White Rim Trail in the National Park. I drove down the steep canyon of the Colorado river then past the Potash Mine land. The dirt road got progressively worse. I drove up past a cattle guard where the BLM land started. About 100 meters into BLM land the BLM sign informed me that there was no legal camping past that sign. So this narrow pie shaped strip was to be ... read more

After getting my gasoline and other supplies in Moab, Utah I drove back NE up the Colorado River canyon on Utah Hwy 128. I turned East on the Castle Valley road and passed Castle rock. When I got to the Manti La Sal National Forest the dirt road led to Colorado, just a few miles away. I took the right turn up the (extinct) volcanic La Sal Mountains. Since my last visit there in 2017 that road is paved up the La Sal Mts. and on to the South side of Moab. I drove up the La Sal Mts. (about 15 miles) watching the trees get progressively larger as I gained altitude. I drove up through the shrubs to the junipers and scrub oaks. I turned left (East) on the narrow dirt trail up to the ... read more

I had a long day in Colorado and wanted to camp on the Colorado River in Utah. Westbound on Interstate Hwy 70, the first exit on the North Side of the highway in Utah is a very nice large viewing area. Cuz of the wildfires in California the haze over Utah (and Arizona) was thick and nice pics were hard to come by. I did not stop at the view area on this trip, but wish to show the pics from my 2017 visit. This view area has restrooms and wheelchair accessible walking trails for nice views. I feel that this would be a legal place to sleep for the night. I drove to the next interstate exit for the old Westwater settlement area dirt road on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) area leading to the ... read more