A very interesting arch here. It looks like you can walk through it. You can but you'd fall forever into the canyon below.
Ravens are very socialable here. There are one or two that work every picnic and parking area. I think there would be more but the dominant ones probably have territorial rights and keep the others out. They will come right up to you if they think you might feed them.
Upheaval Dome is a pretty barren place. The green is from iron in the rock. It is hypothesed that a meteor hit here and caused the hole.
Canyonlands is a big place. It is measured in square miles rather than acres. 527 of them. The park is divided into 4 districts - Island in the Sky, Needles, the Maze and the rivers. Looking out there, you can see the canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers. There is a 100 mile road out there. A permit is required and it takes 3 days to drive. We could see portions of it. It looked like some parts were just huge puddles of water. There has been much rain lately.
See the road in the bottom left corner?
This is inside a cave overhang in the Needles district. A crack in the rock has Southern Maidenhair ferns growing from it.
Tansyaster is common
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