BAD TRAVELS

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The story goes that local stockmen rounded up wild horses and corralled them by building a fence across the narrowest part of the plateau, leaving the herd confined so they could pick the horses they wanted. The unwanted animals were left behind with the gate left open for them to go back to the wild. Check out the BLOG!

The name came about because one year the horses left behind remained on the mesa within sight and smell of the river below but unable to reach it. They all died of thirst.

Right by the visitor centre you see these bright blue pools of water. Turns out they’re solar evaporation ponds for potash mining. Kinda odd to see in the middle of a state park.

Hiking along the rim from the visitor centre to the point.

A different view back to the bright blue ponds.

The dead horse point. I guess the dead branches represent how the cowboys blocked the horses in.

At the end of the point, the big attraction is this view of the bend in the Colorado River below.

Scenery on the rim wasn’t anything special, just more red dirt and sagebrush