Got to love this ‘Senior Pass’ deal for our Federal Parks, show the card and drive right in! Spend the whole day and have money left over for a beer on the way back to camp. On Wednesday we went to a park I’d never heard of, Canyonlands. Want to find it? Go to Moab, UT, it’s about 25 miles west. At the visitor’s center you will be cautioned that there is no water or services in the park, there are pit toilets.
95% of the visitors will be satisfied to stay on the upper rim road which winds away for about 25 miles giving wonderful vistas of the canyons.
In the photo on the far right, we see a Canyon (rimmed in white) which is about 350 feet below the rim Anne-Marie is standing on. The canyon that is central goes down about another 750 to the base which is fairly flat. The far wall (not the snow capped mountain0 is about 20 miles away. The Colorado River empties into Lake Powel about 40 miles north 
of here.
The Grand View Point is at the end of the road. A good place to stop and picnic, now 
would be a good time to see if we have water. No? Well I’m damn happy she supersized the Coke!
Photos below are taken at The Grand View Point. Very windy here, skin gets a light abrasion treatment.
OK, I hear you, I’m only about 50’ up.
Now is when 95% of the folks go back on the road, having pleasant memories of these wonderful vistas and more.
Tune in tomorrow and I’ll show you the way we went home after a friendly (?) Ranger showed me an alternate road.
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