Green River Overlook
by Suzanne Stout
Title
Green River Overlook
Artist
Suzanne Stout
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Carved by the relentless Colorado and Green rivers, the Island in the Sky District covers a triangular mesa where the two rivers join. Water and gravity are the prime sculptors of this land, cutting through layers and layers of sedimentary rock. The end result is 527 square miles of canyons, mesas, buttes, arches and one of the most primitive national parks in the Southwest.
This overlook view, from 6000 feet elevation, looks out across Soda Springs Basin towards the Utah Juniper - Island in the Sky, Moab, Utah Green River. Seeing this viewpoint for the first time may catch visitors by surprise. Those not accustomed to wide open spaces and great heights, this overlook view will live up to the term breathtaking experience. Here, the Green River is a tiny ribbon of water in one awe-inspiring canyon. An incomprehensible distance, the vista stretches out for a hundred miles to the horizon. A sandstone viewing area, sparsely decorated with Utah juniper, marks the canyon rim and signals where a 2200 foot drop-off begins to the river far below.
About halfway down into the canyons, a pencil-thin primitive White Rim Trail follows the edge of the Green River bench for 100 miles.
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May 20th, 2018
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