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Canyonlands National Park is a national park of the United States located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab. The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into numerous canyons , mesas , and buttes by the Colorado River , the Green River , and their respective tributaries.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
National Register of Historic Places in Canyonlands National Park (10 P) Pages in category "Canyonlands National Park" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Spring and fall are the most favorable seasons to visit Angel Arch. According to the Köppen climate classification system, it is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone, which is defined by the coldest month having an average mean temperature below −0 °C (32 °F) and at least 50% of the total annual precipitation being received during the spring and summer.
Church Rock is a solitary column of sandstone in southern Utah along the eastern side of U.S. Route 191, [1] near the entrance to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. In the same area with the majestic Colorado and Green River canyons and Canyonlands, this 200 foot roadside oddity near Monticello is called Church Rock
The pictures at Newspaper Rock were inscribed into the dark coating on the rock, called desert varnish. Desert varnish is mainly made up (~70%) by clay materials, but gets its blackish color from iron and manganese oxide deposits that gradually form on exposed sandstone cliff faces owing to the action of rainfall and bacteria. [ 5 ]
Cave Springs Cowboy Camp was a line camp operated by the Scorup-Sommerville Cattle Company in what would become Canyonlands National Park, Utah. The site consists of a cave-like shelter under a rock overhang on the side of a small canyon. The canyon was arranged with a fence across the opening that allowed its use as a cattle pen.