We drove the 30 or so miles south to Canyonlands National Park yesterday. It's startling to go from all those huge spires and rock features to mostly flat mesas where canyons rule. Arches is a place where you're almost always looking up. Canyonlands is a place where you're always looking down.
Sheep and cattle ranchers settled this area in the 1800s. There is a primitive 4WD road that descends the canyon and loops around that was used originally by the Native Americans, then used by the
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| Shafer Canyon road |
sheep ranchers, and now is used by off roaders to explore the canyons. (Sheep sometimes fell off the steep road and perished.) Cool to look at, but I wouldn't drive it.
We hiked about 8 miles today and the pictures, again, tell the story.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PwhjdshMfqaGKUDz6
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