Dead Horse Point State Park

After breakfast on Sunday we did what is likely a pretty common daily double -- Dead Horse Point State Park followed by Canyonlands National Park. The two are separated by only a few miles and share some of the same views, albeit from slightly different angles.

You don't really ease into Dead Horse Point.  The view from the short trail around the visitor center takes your breath away right off the bat and makes you feel quite small.

Late in the morning as it was we didn't have the most dramatic light.  But that's a little like going to a Pavarotti concert and complaining about the acoustics.  Just shut up and enjoy the show.

The park isn't especially big, so we didn't spend too much time there.  But what it may lack in quantity of vistas it makes up for in quality.

One of the best things about taking pictures between late fall and early spring is that even at its peak, the sun is low enough in the sky that you still get some shadows.

Well, you don't get the shadows you might want in every shot.

The deepest part of the park has the view most people come for -- a gooseneck on the Colorado River.  The Shafer Trail Road in the foreground runs from Canyonlands in the background to a potash extraction facility to the northeast  that's actually marked on maps in a way that makes it look like a town named Potash.  I find that very odd.