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View from Dead Horse Point lookout. 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 begins at the overlook in Dead Horse Point State Park's parking lot (22 miles south of Moab). Gaining its scenic byway designation, SR-313 heads northward, along the ridges of Dead Horse Point. The highway climbs in elevation, reaching a height of 6,000 feet (1,800 m). Soon after, all drivers exit the park and have to pay a toll. [3]
Dead Horse Point State Park: Grand and San Juan: 5,300 acres (2145 ha) [6] 5,900 ft (1798 m) 1959 403,737 Showcases views of the Colorado River and Canyonlands National Park from a finger of land once used as a horse corral. Deer Creek State Park: Wasatch: 3,260 acres (1319 ha) 5,400 ft (1646 m) 1971 283,744
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 ...
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