Road Index     click green ovals to jump ahead or behind              user-contolled cycle: choose an automated cycle   2 seconds   5 seconds   10 seconds   30 seconds   60 seconds

1 / 91
UT 95
91 Slides: 67 on UT 95 from Hanksville to Blanding;
9 on UT 275 (Natural Bridges National Monument); 15 on UT 161 (Goosenecks and Moki Dugway)
2 / 91
UT 95
Bicentennial Highway
Jun 07 2021 - 2:49 pm
3 / 91
Henry Mountains
Henry Mountains to the south
Jun 07 2021 - 1:39 pm
4 / 91
Utah Desert
Desert to the north
Jun 07 2021 - 1:46 pm
5 / 91
Henry Mountains
Bull Mountain (9,187') background (l to r): Mt. Ellen (11,522') and Mt. Pennel (11,371') highest peaks in the Henry Mountains
Jun 07 2021 - 2:04 pm
6 / 91
Entrada Sandstone
Entrada Sandstone capped by rounded gravel
Jun 07 2021 - 2:21 pm
7 / 91
History Repeating
Like today
Jun 07 2021 - 2:25 pm
8 / 91
UT 276
UT 276 leads to a ferry across Lake Powell closed because of low water
Jun 07 2021 - 2:28 pm
9 / 91
North Wash
Just beyond the intersection UT 95 curves left into North Wash draining Mt. Ellen (UT 95 follows the wash to its confluence with the Colorado River)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:30 pm
10 / 91
Entrada Sandstone
Entrada Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 2:33 pm
11 / 91
Fossilized Sand Dunes
Jurassic fossilized sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 2:34 pm
12 / 91
Entrada Sandstone
Entrada Sandstone (ancient cross-bedded sand dunes)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:36 pm
13 / 91
Moenkopi Formation
from bottom: Triassic Moenkopi and Chinle formations, Jurassic Wingate and Entrada sandstones
Jun 07 2021 - 2:39 am
14 / 91
Tafoni
Tafoni (common in all sandstones)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:45 pm
15 / 91
Hog Springs
Hog Springs Recreation Area
Jun 07 2021 - 2:51 pm
16 / 91
Hog Springs
Hog Springs at the head of the wash (perhaps on impermeable Chinle shales at the base of permeable Wingate-Entrada sandstone)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:51 pm
17 / 91
Entrada-Wingate Cliffs
Entrada - Wingate sandstone cliff sandwiched between Jurassic Morrison and Triassic Chinle shales
Jun 07 2021 - 2:53 pm
18 / 91
Hanging Valley
Hanging valley on White Rim-Cedar Sandstone (note seepage along the entire valley floor)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:55 pm
19 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
Permian White Rim Sandstone below thin Triassic Chinle and Moenkopi shales and Navajo Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:02 pm
20 / 91
Glen Canyon NRA
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Jun 07 2021 - 3:00 pm
21 / 91
Red Rocks
Red rocks all around
Jun 07 2021 - 3:09 pm
22 / 91
North Wash
North Wash emptying into the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:16 pm
23 / 91
Colorado River
Telephoto of the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:17 pm
24 / 91
Confluence
Confluence of North Wash-foreground, Dirty Devil River-left, and Colorado River-background, all entreched about 100' into the White Rim Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:22 pm
25 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
North Wash upstream stripping Moenkopi shales from White Rim Sandstone (enigmatic white band in the Moenkopi Formation)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:23 pm
26 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
Another view of stripped surface (paying no attention to slope angle is the enigma)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:23 pm
27 / 91
UT 95
Utah 95 in red rock country
Jun 07 2021 - 3:27 pm
28 / 91
Henry Mountains
Henry Mountains visible to the west
Jun 07 2021 - 3:28 pm
29 / 91
Lake Powell
Lake Powell is 138' below pool level covering the parking lot
Jun 07 2021 - 3:30 pm
30 / 91
Road Notch
Notch through the Moenkopi Formation
Jun 07 2021 - 3:32 pm
31 / 91
Colorado River
Parabolic arch bridge over the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:33 pm
32 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
White Rim Sandstone surface (Dirty Devil River cuts the 100' deep canyon in the middle of the surface)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:37 pm
33 / 91
Dirty Devil River
Dirty Devil River Bridge
Jun 07 2021 - 3:42 pm
34 / 91
Arch Supported Bridge
Arched below the pavement
Jun 07 2021 - 3:48 pm
35 / 91
Dirty Devil River
Dirty Devil River Canyon entrenched 100 feet in the White Rim-Cedar Mesa Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:46 pm
36 / 91
Hoodoo Weathering
Hoodoo weathering in ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 3:49 pm
37 / 91
Between Rivers
UT 95 between the Dirty Devil and Colorado Rivers
Jun 07 2021 - 3:50 pm
38 / 91
Weathering
Weathering resembles a sitting dinosaur in dinosaur country
Jun 07 2021 - 3:52 pm
39 / 91
Moenkopi Formation
Red Moenkopi Formation Monuments
Jun 07 2021 - 3:55 pm
40 / 91
Colorado Valley
Colorado River entrenched 100 feet into the White Rim-Cedar Mesa Sandstone (Mesozoic section up to Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone in background)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:56 pm
41 / 91
Colorado River Bridge
Colorado River Bridge
Jun 07 2021 - 3:58 pm
42 / 91
Colorado River Bridge
Arched partially above the roadway
May 17 2013 - 3:59 pm
43 / 91
Weathered Cross Bedding
Weathered cross-bedding indicates ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 4:02 pm
44 / 91
Ancient Sand Dunes
Henry Mountains over ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 4:05 pm
45 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
Permian White Rim Sandstone forms a major stripped surface in this region
Jun 07 2021 - 4:10 pm
46 / 91
Moenkopi Formation
Moenkopi Formation
Jun 07 2021 - 4:11 pm
47 / 91
Side Road
Road 3 miles to Lake Powell
Jun 07 2021 - 4:38 pm
48 / 91
Terrace Gravels
Colorado River terraces gravels
Jun 07 2021 - 4:34 pm
49 / 91
No Lake
No Lake Powell, about 140' below pool level
Jun 07 2021 - 4:31 pm
50 / 91
Turn Around
Turn around point
Jun 07 2021 - 4:36 pm
51 / 91
UT 95
Back to UT 95
Jun 07 2021 - 4:11 pm
52 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
White Rim Sandstone surface (overlain by Moenkopi-Chinle slopes below Wingate-Navajo-Kayenta {Glen Canyon Group} and Entrada cliffs)
Jun 07 2021 - 4:49 pm
53 / 91
Henry Mountains
Henry Mountains over Moenkopi shales
Jun 07 2021 - 4:52 pm
54 / 91
Jacobs Chair
Jacobs Chair (6,784')
Jun 07 2021 - 5:04 pm
55 / 91
The Cheesebox
The Cheesebox (6,318')
Jun 07 2021 - 5:24 pm
56 / 91
UT 275
UT 275 "Trail of the Ancients" to Natural Bridges National Monument
from NBNM Website
57 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
White Rim Sandstone surface and about 100' entrenchment by the washes (narrow canyons to flush sediment from the area in sparse rains)
May 23 2021 - 3:47 pm
58 / 91
Weathered Scour
Telephoto of weathered scour
May 23 2021 - 3:47 pm
59 / 91
Natural Bridge
Natural Bridge
May 17 2013 - 6:26 pm
60 / 91
White Canyon
Telephoto of the White Canyon
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
61 / 91
Deep Canyon
Deep Canyon
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
62 / 91
Dry Watering Holes
Headward stream erosion (dry watering holes aligned in lieu of streams on sandstone surface perhaps becoming a canyon)
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
63 / 91
One Way Road
One way loop road in the National Monument
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
64 / 91
Golden Eagle
Gliding golden eagle checked us out
May 17 2013 - 6:29 pm
65 / 91
UT 261
UT 261: Valley of the Gods, Moki Dugway, and Cedar Mesa
66 / 91
Valley of the Gods
Valley of the Gods
May 23 2021 - 2:23 pm
67 / 91
Monument Valley
A glimpse of Monument Valley
May 23 2021 - 2:23 pm
68 / 91
UT 316
UT 316 a four mile jaunt and back to the Goosenecks of the San Juan River
May 18 2013 - 6:23 pm
69 / 91
Goosenecks
West Gooseneck
May 18 2013 - 6:50 pm
70 / 91
Goosenecks
East Gooseneck
May 18 2013 - 6:49 pm
71 / 91
Resistant Surfaces
River first then slope erosion polishes resistant sandstone surfaces
May 18 2013 - 6:52 pm
72 / 91
Monument Uplift
Back to UT 216, Valley of the Gods in front of eastern limb of Monument Uplift
May 23 2021 - 2:30 pm
73 / 91
Jurassic Cliffs
Approaching Permian White Rim and Cedar Mesa sandstone cliffs (unpaved Moki Dugway ascends the cliffs)
May 23 2021 - 2:43 pm
74 / 91
Pavement Ends
Pavement ends, start of Moki Dugway
May 23 2021 - 2:52 pm
75 / 91
Switchbacks
Switchbacks on Moki Dugway
May 18 2013 - 7:21 pm
76 / 91
White Rim Sandstone
On a switchback approaching White Rim Sandstone which caps the plateau beyond
May 23 2021 - 3:00 pm
77 / 91
Moki Dugway
Topographic map of the Moki Dugway
78 / 91
Monument Uplift
East limb of the Monument Uplift (Carizzo Mountains in Arizona in background)
May 23 2021 - 2:56 pm
79 / 91
Flat On Top
Bear Ears rising above surface of Cedar Mesa leading 20 miles back to UT 95
May 23 2021 - 3:06 pm
80 / 91
Salvation Knoll
Back to UT 95 over Salvation Knoll (salvation to lost party of pioneers when they could see landmark Abajo (Blue) Mountains in the background)
Jun 07 2021 - 5:55 pm
81 / 91
UT 95
UT 95 through the Comb Ridge Monocline (road cut through the Wingate-Entrada sandstones)
Jun 07 2021 - 6:01 pm
82 / 91
Comb Ridge
Different lighting on sections of Comb Ridge
Jun 07 2021 - 6:06 pm
83 / 91
Road Cut
Approaching the road cut through Wingate-Entrada sandstones
May 23 2021 - 5:14 pm
84 / 91
Road Cut
Road cut
May 23 2021 - 5:15 pm
85 / 91
Comb Ridge
Comb Ridge and view of UT 95 just driven
Jun 07 2021 - 6:13 pm
86 / 91
Dip Slope
East side of Comb Ridge (dip slope of Entrada Sandstone)
Jun 07 2021 - 6:17 pm
87 / 91
San Miguel Mountains
San Miguel and San Juan Mountains
May 23 2021 - 6:03 pm
88 / 91
San Juan Mountains
(from left): Lone Cone, San Miguel Mountains, San Juan Mountains, La Plata Mountains
May 23 2021 - 5:08 pm
89 / 91
US 191 S of Blanding
Tumbled block of Dakota Sandstone
May 23 2021 - 5:26 pm - 5:07 pm
90 / 91
Abajo Mountains
Abajo Mountains from the south end of UT 95
May 23 2021 - 6:06 pm
91 / 91
US 191 S of Blanding
South end of UT 95
US 191 4 miles south of Blanding