More than four times the size of nearby Arches National Park, with less than half the visitation, Canyonlands abounds with backcountry opportunities
—and it stands as the finest moment in Udall’s environmental legacy. Moss deserved much of the credit for the creation of the park, one of the most satisfying moments in his career.Most park visitors frequent Island in the Sky, which is close to Moab, Utah.
The Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon holds detailed pictographs of life-sized figures painted between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500 by the Puebloan nomads.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. In the 12th century it stopped raining, and the warlike Utes arrived. According to some archaeologists, the combination of drought and newcomers forced the ancestral Puebloans to head farther south and abandon the Canyonlands region. Even today, potsherds can be found poking out of the sand near their surviving granaries; visitors should be careful to leave these artifacts untouched.
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