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UTAH Canyonland Color Country
Last post 06-08-2007 4:50 PM by Mike Leco. 0 replies.
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Mike Leco
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UTAH Canyonland Color Country
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Mike Leco
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Location: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA
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 Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: UTAH Canyonland Color Country |
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If you ever wanted to visit the scenic wild west that has been made famous in countless cowboy films since the beginning of movie making, then Utah is the place to visit. Sure, there are scenic attractions in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and California that rival those found in Utah, but none of those states have the immense variety and selection that you will find in Utah.
The southern part of Utah and especially the south eastern corner is often called the canyonlands and the color country. The Grand Canyon is located in Arizona just south of the southern border of Utah, but the watershed that feeds it extends up through the southeastern corner of the state of Utah. Glen Canyon Dam is located in Page, Arizona near the Utah border, but the immense Lake Powell that it creates extends nearly one hundred miles into Utah. Its sky-blue waters finger out into a myriad of canyons large and small that create hundreds of square miles of exotic scenery.
Beyond Lake Powell, the Colorado River and its many tributaries extend over thousands of sqare miles of Utah landscape. This geological fantasia is carved into thousands of canyons large and small. Some of them cut a thousand meters or more into the bedrock and form immense spectacles that rival the Grand Canyon. Others form mazes of winding and intersecting canyons that create complex mazes covering huge expanses of wilderness. Some canyons are so small that you can barely squeeze through them, yet they are hundreds of meters deep.
The rock layers vary in color from pure white to brilliant red and dark black with inumerable shades and combinations. In parts of Utah, gleaming white cliffs rise hundreds of meters, while nearby, other rock formations of vermillion red also rise hundreds of meters. In many locations the various colors are layered and banded to form multi-hued cliffs and canyon walls. Utah is definitely camera country.
If you don't like tourist crowds, Utah is great. There are popular parklands like Zion, Bryce Canyon and Arches that draw crowds of tourists, but there are also thousands of miles of wilderness country, just as beautiful and just as spectacular, that is nearly devoid of tourists. In fact it is nearly devoid of civilization or of any inhabitants other than snakes, lizards and coyotes. | |
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OGDENGONDOLA
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