Grand View Point Overlook (August 20, 2018)

Grand View Point offers a spectacular view of the Canyonlands area. From the viewpoint at 6,080 feet elevation, you can see distant mountains, canyons, basins, and the White Rim Road.  Papa Tom stands 1,000 feet above the White Rim plateau, at the edge of the aptly named Monument Basin.  The "monuments" are 300 feet high. I should have asked Papa to stand to the right or left of the plant "monument."

Another view from Grand View Point. The White Rim road (see earlier post) skirts the rim of the Monument Basin.  Not visible in the photo are roads used by uranium miners before the national park was established in 1964.  The roads will take decades to disappear from the fragile desert ecology.