A few weekends ago, I ventured out to Dead Horse Point State Park. Lucky for me, I got in for free since I work at Arches. The park is beautiful- stunning viewpoints that my pictures do no justice to. Before you look at my pictures, let me tell you a little bit about the park.
So, according to one legend, cowboys in the 1800s used the point as a corral for wild mustangs. The cowboys rounded up the herd, pushed them across the 30-yard-wide neck of land and fenced the neck with tree branches and shrubs. Some of these horses were left corralled on the waterless point, where they died of thirst 2,000 feet above the Colorado River. Although wild horses no longer roam the mesa top, the area’s local name was kept when the park was established in 1959.
The mesa you see in the middle is where the horses were corralled.
The viewpoints from the Visitors Center
A few shots were taken with my new camera lens. Pretty cool!
Me at Dead Horse Viewpoint - it was really windy there!
Bowtie Arch
