Canyonlands

Friday we visited the "Island in the Sky" district on Canyonlands national park. All of us were feeling a little wiped out from the hiking yesterday, and figured that this park would be the best to visit because many of the sites can be reached by car, or via very short hikes. (There were plenty of long hikes there too, but enough other stuff to keep us busy.) While the views were spectacular, I preferred Arches because you can get up so close to everything. This park was much more about spectacular vistas stretching for miles in all directions. The parks name of "Island in the Sky" is very appropriate, since it is surrounded by a sheer vertical cliff on all sides reaching down over a 1000 feet