Our first destination on Sunday morning was Dead Horse Point State Park. We had been here in 2010 and it is an impressive view, 2000’ down to the Colorado River.
The legend of the park is that cowboys rounded up wild mustangs and herded them across the 30’ wide narrow neck of the Mesa. Once there, the neck was fenced off with branches and brush allowing the cowboys to choose the horses they wished to keep. They would leave with those horses and the unwanted ones would be left behind to die of thirst, since there was no water on the point.
After our visit there, we headed to the north entrance of Canyonlands National Park. Called Island in the Sky, it is because you drive out on a mesa and then across a narrow “neck” to the island.
Lots of grasslands heading into the park.
We headed to the end of the one arm of the road to a point called Grand View. From there we could look down to the White Rim and some more 4×4 roads. We walked along a trail for some more views.
Once we returned to the truck, we decide to head back to our campground since it would take more than an hour to get there. Tomorrow we move to a different campground, still in the Moab area, but our last before we start our journey home.
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