Dead Horse Point State Park

Dead Horse Point State Park

Towering 2000 feet above the Colorado River, Dead Horse Point State Park provides a breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands sculptured pinnacles and buttes. From the park's 6,000 foot vantage point, visitors also get a birds-eye view of 300 million years of geologic activity, visible in the exposed canyon layers deposited by ancient seas, waterways, sand dunes, erosion, and regional uplift.

According to one legend, the point was once used as a corral for wild mustangs. Cowboys chose the horses they wanted and left the other horses corralled on the waterles point where they died of thirst.

Dead Horse Point State Park is situated atop a high plateau at an elevation of about 6,000 feet above sea level. The river has slowly cut through the land exposing millions of years worth of layers of sandstone. The rock layers have eroded into pinnacles, cliffs. and plains. The view is spectacular every way you look.