Moab, UT, Canyonlands NP - Island in the Sky District - 2025

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The next day we went back into Canyonlands NP and drove out to Dead Horse Point State Park. According to one legend, the point was once used as a corral for wild mustangs roaming the mesa. Cowboys rounded them up and herded them across the narrow neck of land on to the point. The neck, which is only 30 yards wide, was fenced off with branches and brush creating a natural corral surrounded by steep cliffs. The cowboys then chose the horses they wanted and for reasons unknown, left the other horses corralled on the waterless point, where they died of thirst within view of the Colorado river 2,000 feet below.

We hiked along the rim. It was cool that we could see the horseshoe made by the Colorado River that we saw from our drive on Potash road.




These are the Potash fields from a higher elevation


We then continued on in the national park and took the short walk on what they call the Island in the Sky, the views were amazing.

We got a better view of Shafer Trail, the one we drove the Jeep on the day before.




We walked a half mile out to see Mesa Arch


There was a gap between the arch and the edge


Buck Canyon with the La Sal mountians in the distance


Grand View was amazing! The pictures do not portray the beauty!











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