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Canyonland National Park
This park is located just a few miles south of Arches.
The two canyons in which run the Colorado and the Green River meet together, making a giant Y dividing the territory in three parts.
We choose to see two of them : "Island In The Sky", a headland overlooking the vastness, and "The Maze", a large plateau offering breathtaking panoramas.
Just out of the park is " Dead Horse State Park". There you have an amazing view over the network og canyons hollowed by seasonal rivers.
Magic !
Arches National Park
This park is home to more than 2000 arches as well as hundreds of pinnacles and rock fins formed by thousands of years of wind an rains.
The story of arches begins roughly 65 millions years ago.
A that time, the area was a dry seabed.Then the landscape slowly began to change. First, geological forces wrinkled and burried sandstone, as if it were a giant rug and someone gathered the 2 edges toward each other.
As the sandstone warped, fractures tore through it, establishing the patterns for rock sculpturs of the future.
Next, the entire region began to rise, climbling from sea level to thousands of feet in elevation.
The force of erosion carved layer after layer of rocks away.
In winter,snowmelt pools in fractures, then freezes and expands breaking off chunks of sandstones
Little by little this process turns fractured rocks into fins, and fins into arches.
We spent three days there, looking for the arches which are mostly hidden away.
But the trails leading to them are just beautifull.
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