Photo Gallery Twenty-five 

Canyonlands National Park - "Needles District" near Moab, UT

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

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

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

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

Edge on view of Newspaper Rock along Highway 211.

Close-up of Newspaper Rock.

Detail of Newspaper Rock.

A future adventure off Highway 211.

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

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.

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

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

Curling mud on the surface of Salt Creek.

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

Sandstone Hoodoos above Elephant Hill.

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

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

Sandstone formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

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

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

Sandstone sentinels along the trail to Chessler Park.

Sandstone sentinels along the trail to Chessler Park.

Sandstone formations along the trail to Chessler Park.

Cryptobiotic soil along the trail to Chessler Park.

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

Rock slabs along the trail to Chessler Park.

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

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

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

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

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