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Canyonlands NP, Utah - Scenic Drives

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Scenic drives to consider in the Canyonlands NP area are listed below. Click on any scenic byway or backway listed below for complete information.

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More Info Official Website Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Byway

Dinosaur Diamond is named for the rough diamond shape of this remarkable area, stretching from Eastern Utah into Western Colorado. The Byway offers opportunities for the public to visit archeological and fossil sites in their natural settings.

More Info Bicentennial Highway
  • about four hours
  • 164 miles (263 km)

Completed in 1976 and dubbed the "Bicentennial Highway," this road is the gateway to Natural Bridges National Monument, where erosion has created the world's largest display of natural bridges, formed out of 225 million-year-old Cedar Mesa sandstone.

More Info Bull Creek Pass National Back Country Byway
  • 3 hours to drive the byway.
  • 68 miles (109 km)

Bull Creek Pass National Back Country Byway winds for 68 miles through Utah's Henry Mountains. The view from the route includes colorful canyons, steep cliffs, vast badlands, and rugged alpine mountains.The byway climbs nearly a mile as it loops through this colorful, vibrant mountain range set betw...

More Info Dead Horse Point Mesa Scenic Byway
  • 30 minutes minimum, but 2-3 hours recommended to enjoy the state and national parks.
  • 35 miles (56 km)

An intriguing name for an intriguing place: Dead Horse Point is so named because in the mid-1800s, cowboys installed wild mustangs here, on the natural corral, a small plateau 2,000 feet above the Colorado River. Unwanted culls or "broomtails" were left behind on the plateau to find their way off th...

More Info Indian Creek Corridor Scenic Byway
  • 35 miles (56 km)

Beginning fourteen miles north of Monticello, this scenic byway travels west from US-191 to Newspaper Rock and the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

More Info Lockheart Basin Road
  • Rough Dirt/Gravel
  • 8 - 10 hours
  • 57 miles

More Info Potash Scenic Byway
  • Paved
  • 2 hours
  • 34 mile roundtrip

Potash Scenic Byway (Hwy. 279) begins at Hwy 191 about 3 miles northwest of Moab and a short distance past the Colorado River. It follows the Colorado southeast for about 16 miles, ending at the Moab Salt Plant. The byway runs between high cliff walls on the west and the Colorado River on the east.

More Info Squaw Flats Scenic Byway
  • Paved
  • 1 - 2 hours
  • 35 miles oneway

The Squaw Flat Scenic Byway (Hwy 211) begins at Hwy 191 about 40 miles south of Moab, and runs west into the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. Along the way is nice red rock scenery, good views south of the Abajo Mountains and wonderful Newspaper Rock -- a cliff wall densely covered with Indian petroglyphs.

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