Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands NP

Dead Horse got its name from a terrible practice. Early cowboys would gather wild horses and corral them with natural brush and tree limbs on a sharp point above the Colorado River. They would pick the ones they liked and leave the others to die in the corral. Yikes. No one knows the reason. 
Dead Horse has the iconic view of the Colorado River horseshoe bend.  

Four miles away is Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands is north of Lake Powell and the Grand Canyon. They all connect. Stunning! My iPhone does not do the view justice. 

Kate was happy she could go with us on this trip!

 Utah has been a great stop. We were headed to Monument Valley but did not realize it was on the Navajo Reservation along with Antelope Canyon which is closed due to high Covid-19 rates on the reservation. So...we will head to Colorado instead and will get home a few days earlier. 

BTW we have already hit 5,000 miles - so I guess this closer to 6,000 mile trip. Google maps isn’t 100% accurate!