CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK
Day 1
December 24, 2017
Canyonlands National Park is a colorful landscape eroded into numerous canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries.
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PHOTOS
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Photographer at Green River Overlook
The Green River is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River Basin, covers parts of the states of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The Green River is 730 miles long, beginning in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming and flowing through Wyoming and Utah for most of its course, except for a short segment in western Colorado. Much of the route traverses the arid Colorado Plateau, where the river has carved spectacular canyons. The Green River is slightly smaller than the Colorado River when the two rivers merge.
Green River Basin
Mesa Arch
Mesa Arch (elevation 6,100 ft) is a pothole arch. This 27-foot-long arch frames views of the canyon far below and the La Sal Mountains in the distance.
The Monitor and Merrimac are two buttes towering above the Utah desert. They were named after the resemblance to the two Civil War ironclad ships whose epic naval battle forever changed maritime warfare. Merrimac Butte is the larger of the two. It’s between 200 and 600 feet wide and 1,600 feet long. It stands about 200 feet high at an elevation of 5,627 feet. Location: Just outside Canyonlands.
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