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Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument is a Utah state monument featuring a rock panel carved with one of the largest known collections of petroglyphs. [1] It is located in San Juan County , along Utah State Route 211 , 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Monticello and 53 miles (85 km) south of Moab .
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.
Moab is just south of the Colorado River, at an elevation of 4,025 feet (1,227 m) on the Colorado Plateau. It is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Utah/Colorado state line. Via U.S. Route 191, it is 31 miles (50 km) south of Interstate 70 at Crescent Junction, and it is 54 miles (87 km) north of Monticello.
Photographs of the American West, Boston Public Library The Book Cliff in Helper, Utah. The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah in the Western United States. [1] They are so named because the cliffs of Cretaceous sandstone capping many of the south-facing buttes appear similar to a shelf ...
The Courthouse Wash Pictographs are a series of large pictographs created over a long period of time, located on a sheltered sandstone wall at the mouth of Courthouse Wash, Arches National Park in Grand County, Utah, United States, just north of Moab, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Devils Garden [note 1] is an area of Arches National Park, located near Moab, Utah, United States, [2] that features a series of rock fins and arches formed by erosion. [3] The Devils Garden Trail, including more primitive sections and spurs, meanders through the area for 7.2 mi (11.6 km). [ 4 ]
Arches National Park is a national park of the United States in eastern Utah.The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 mi (6 km) north of Moab, Utah.The park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the well-known Delicate Arch, which constitute the highest density of natural arches in the world.
Moab DUP Museum: Moab: Grand: History: Operated by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, [1] local history Moab Museum of Film and Western Heritage: Moab: Grand: Media: website, located at the Red Cliffs Lodge where many movies were shot, features early cowboy ranching and local movie memorabilia Monticello DUP Museum: Monticello: San Juan: History