{"id":2010,"date":"2017-08-29T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2017-08-29T22:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T02:14:13","slug":"unusual-utah-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Utah Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was, essentially, a travel day but there were three unusual desert scenes to amuse me along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The first, <em>Monument Valley<\/em>, is part of the Navajo Nation and is right on the Arizona\/Utah line. It is a collection of red sandstone monoliths that are up to 1,000 feet tall and has been featured in western movies for decades. There is a tribal park here that I have visited two or three times previously so I just took photos from the road.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2015\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Monument-Valley.jpg\" alt=\"Monument Valley\" width=\"760\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Monument-Valley.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Monument-Valley-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><br \/>\nNext up was the other-worldly <em>Goosenecks State Park<\/em>. Here the <em>San Juan River<\/em> formed meanders so long ago that it has eroded the rock into 1,000 foot deep canyons. The park is basically a parking lot and viewpoint and this is the panorama in front of you (click to see the full size version).<a href=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Goosenecks-Panorama-Full.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2014 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Goosenecks-Panorama-Small.jpg\" alt=\"Goosenecks Panorama Small\" width=\"760\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Goosenecks-Panorama-Small.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Goosenecks-Panorama-Small-300x66.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe last unusual scene is the <em>Moki Dugway<\/em>. This is a 3-mile section of dirt road switchbacks that carry Utah highway 261 up the side of the cliff called <em>Cedar Mesa<\/em>. The mesa top is 1,100 feet above the valley. The following photo is not mine as I was unable to find the point where this is taken from but it shows the dugway well. My best views of the dugway are in the road video which, with the map to help make sense of all this, can be found <a href=\"\/Tripmapper\/Mapview2.aspx?DataFile=Alaska\/2017_08_29_Blanding&amp;Video=l8ulYyjJ22s\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2012\" src=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Moki-Dugway.jpg\" alt=\"Moki Dugway\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Moki-Dugway.jpg 760w, http:\/\/relativerest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Moki-Dugway-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was, essentially, a travel day but there were three unusual desert scenes to amuse me along the way. The first, Monument Valley, is part of the Navajo Nation and is right on the Arizona\/Utah line. It is a collection of red sandstone monoliths that are up to 1,000 feet tall and has been featured &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/?p=2010\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unusual Utah Scenes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,3],"tags":[45,46],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relativerest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}