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Colorado and Utah Day 6: Back to Utah

22 August 2022 • 520 km / 323 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 17 October 2022
  • Colorado 5 Utah 19

We made most of our way back to Utah today, but this time via the “southern” route (i.e. I-70 as far as was reasonable).

I regret that it wasn’t possible to make photographs while driving Glenwood Canyon in Colorado. That part will live on only in my memory.

Once we turned off the freeway and onto smaller roads, I could make some photos again. Most of these are in the northwest corner of Colorado:

A small weathered abandoned house stands alone in a wide expanse of green sagebrush and dry grassland, with scrubby juniper-dotted hills rising behind it under a deep blue sky with scattered clouds. A paved highway with a white line runs across the foreground.
west of Meeker, Colorado
A gravel road stretches into the distance across a high-desert landscape of sagebrush and dry grasslands, with layered rocky mesas and mountains on the horizon under a bright blue sky filled with scattered white cumulus clouds.
east of Dinosaur, Colorado
A panoramic view of an empty two-lane road curving through dry high-desert grassland, with flat-topped mesas and low ridges on the horizon under a deep blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds.
Harpers Corner Road, Dinosaur National Monument, north of Dinosaur, Colorado
A wide high-desert vista from an overlook along Harpers Corner Road, with pinyon and juniper trees clinging to sandy rocky slopes in the foreground, a broad green-forested valley and pale grasslands stretching to distant blue ridges, all beneath a bright blue sky filled with puffy white cumulus clouds.
Harpers Corner Road, Dinosaur National Monument, north of Dinosaur, Colorado
A gnarled, weathered juniper with twisting gray dead branches and green foliage in the foreground, set against a tan sandstone cliff and butte under a bright blue sky with scattered white clouds.
Harpers Corner Road, Dinosaur National Monument, north of Dinosaur, Colorado
A wide high-desert landscape with tan grasses and scattered green sagebrush in the foreground, giving way to a long pale rock escarpment and dark ridge on the horizon. Above is a deep blue sky filled with puffy white cumulus clouds.
east of Jensen, Utah
A two-lane highway stretches straight toward the horizon across an arid high-desert plain dotted with sagebrush and dry grass, with low rocky ridges and a distant escarpment under a vast blue sky filled with white cumulus clouds.
east of Jensen, Utah

We spent the night in Vernal, Utah, a few hours east of Salt Lake City, and the supposed gateway to dinosaur land.

A large pink cartoon-style dinosaur statue with big eyelashes and a smiling face holds a sign reading “Vernal, Utah’s Dinosaur Land,” standing above evergreen shrubs under a cloudy sky.
Vernal, Utah
Denver, Colorado, to Vernal, Utah · 520 km / 323 mi
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