6 of 12 – 2024 Fall Trip West Series. Monday 9/23/24. Canyonlands National Park is Huge. There are two distinct entrances to north and south sections that are completely disconnected by the deep canyons of the Colorado and Green Rivers.

Today we left Moab to visit the southern “Needles” section of the park. A park ranger at Arches highly recommended we visit the “Needles Overlook.” She said “not many people go there because it’s out of the way but it’s worth the drive. You’ll be the only ones there in the morning.” It really is a long, lonely drive, we almost turned around but eventually arrived at an incredible view of why the two halves of the park are not connected.

Leaving “The Needles” we headed north back to Moab stopping at a roadside attraction: Wilson Arch.