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Dead Horse Point State Park is a state park in San Juan County, Utah in the United States, featuring a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River and Canyonlands National Park. [4] The park opened to the public in 1959 and covers 5,362 acres (2,170 ha) of high desert at an altitude of 5,900 feet (1,800 m).
The highway is a toll road in Dead Horse Point State Park. Westbound traffic is charged a state park entrance fee at the park boundary. The route was assigned north of Moab in the 1975 in place of SR-278, a proposed but never constructed access to Dead Horse Point. The original alignment of the highway featured steep grades and blind corners ...
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park: Kane: 3,730 acres (1510 ha) 6,000 ft (1829 m) 1963 82,427 Preserves the only dune field on the Colorado Plateau, with a unique color caused by iron oxides and minerals in the Navajo sandstone. Dead Horse Point State Park: Grand and San Juan: 5,300 acres (2145 ha) [6] 5,900 ft (1798 m) 1959 403,737
Utah: Dead Horse Point. An equally gorgeous alternative to Utah's often-crowded national parks, Dead Horse Point State Park showcases the mesas, canyons, and buttes so integral to the state's ...
Like Dead Horse Point, Minnewaska State Park Preserve on the other side of the continent is a land of sheer cliffs that top off 2,000 feet above the world below—but it's a lush ecosystem that's ...
The State Road Commission approved a new State Route 279 in 1960, connecting US-160 (now US-191) northwest of Moab with Dead Horse Point State Park. The route would be mostly new construction, following the right (northwest) bank of the Colorado River to Day Canyon, where it would climb to the southwest onto the plateau containing the park ...
Airport Tower is set 2.5 mi (4.0 km) to the southwest, and Dead Horse Point State Park overlook is situated 4.5 mi (7.2 km) to the north-northeast. Chip and Dale Towers are an eroded fin composed of hard, fine-grained Wingate Sandstone , which is the remains of wind-borne sand dunes deposited approximately 200 million years ago in the Late ...
The Colorado then passes by Dead Horse Point State Park before entering the backcountry of Canyonlands National Park where it is joined from the north by the Green River, its biggest tributary. The Green, flowing from the Wind River Range of western Wyoming , drains 48,000 square miles (120,000 km 2 ) in southwest Wyoming, northeast Utah and ...