Day 4 - Canyonlands National Park

When I flew the Canyonlands two years ago I was stunned and have been looking forward to coming back ever since.
   
The blue salt evaporation pond is striking amid the burnt red canyons.
   
The green Colorado River winds its way through the Canyonlands.
   
 
   
Other than by air, the only way to see the park is by four-wheel drive vehicle on dirt roads, horseback or foot.  Some of the dirt tracks are perilously close to the canyon edges.  Much of the park is virtually unreachable.
   
 
   
 
   
This is where the Green River (from the right) feeds into the Colorado River.  In my opinion, it should be the other way around; the Colorado River should turn into the Green River.  I am, as always, the contrarian.
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
I wonder if humans have ever been in some of these remote places.
   
It's a very large park.
   
You could probably spend decades on foot in it and not see it all.
   
 
   
One of the few signs of human presence I saw.
   

Abstract art.
   
That's one big butte.
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
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I was amazed to find a flat, grassy valley amongst all the rock formations.
   
Reluctantly -- I could fly around here all day -- it is time to leave Canyonlands and continue following the Colorado River to Lake Powell.
   
 
   
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