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Canyonlands National Park - Needles District near Moab, UT

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Squaw Flat - Canyonlands Needles District

View through a meadow to sandstone buttes from the campground at Squaw flat in "The Needles" district of Canyonlands National Park.

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Coral along Highway 211

Corral along Highway 211 after the road drops into the Indian Creek drainage.

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Sandstone Mesa along Highway 211

View through cottonwoods along Indian Creek to a sandstone monument on Highway 211.

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Sandstone Mesa along Highway 211

Close-up view through cottonwoods to a sandstone monument along Highway 211.

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Newspaper Rock

Edge on view of Newspaper Rock along Highway 211.

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Newspaper Rock

Close-up of Newspaper Rock.

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Newspaper Rock

Detail of Newspaper Rock.

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Lockhart Basin Road

A future adventure off Highway 211.

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Salt Creek Confluence - Canyonlands Needles District

Looking upstream from the confluence of Salt Creek and the Colorado River.

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Salt Creek Confluence - Canyonlands Needles District

Looking up the Salt Creek drainage from it's confluence with the Colorado River.  One of the Six Shooter Buttes is in the Horizon along with the Abajo Mountains.

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Salt Creek Confluence - Canyonlands Needles District

Looking to Chessler Park from the Confluence of Salt Creek and the Colorado River.

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Salt Creek Confluence - Canyonlands Needles District

Zoomed view of Chessler Park and "The Needles" from the Confluence of Salt Creek and the Colorado River.

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Salt Creek - Canyonlands Needles District

Curling mud on the surface of Salt Creek.

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Salt Creek - Canyonlands Needles District

Close-up of curling mud on the surface of Salt Creek.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone Hoodoos above Elephant Hill.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone formations on the trail to Chessler Park from Elephant Hill.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone formations along the trail to Chessler Park from Elephant Hill.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone formations on the trail to Chessler Park from Elephant Hill.

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Canyonlands Needles District

A line of Sandstone formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone sentinels along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone sentinels along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Cryptobiotic soil along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Rock slabs and cryptobiotic soil along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Rock slabs along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone hoodoos of Chessler Park in the distance. "The Needles"

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sandstone hoodoos of Chessler Park in the distance. "The Needles"

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Canyonlands Needles District

Sentinels in a compound of formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

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Canyonlands Needles District

Close-up of sentinels in a compound of formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

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