what better fitting picture of Red Rock State Park than a picture of a huge Red Rock… glowing very brightly in the early morning sunrise.
If you’re wondering where this is located check here.
With GPS on the Camera this is the exact location of the shot below.
We stopped in inner city area walked out over what seemed like frozen dunes (maybe) out toward the lake and got some shots… we’re shooting north so that’s Chicago out in the distance.
The arrow shows the exact location I was standing for the picture.
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This is where the picture was taken
This is located at the intersection of Hwy 191 and Ut-211 scenic road which goes out towards the southern portion of canyon lands national park
Envisioning the Temple of the Sun and the Moon in Capitol Reef National Park at Twilight
BTW this is the scene I woke up to in this same location the next morning (Below)
A pair of large monoliths, the sun and the moon, dominate Upper Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef National Park.
This is where these pictures were taken
Moki Dugway
At the Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center, there is a brief description of the Moki Dugway. Here is the text:
“MOKEE (MOKI, MOQUI) DUGWAY
SAN JUAN COUNTY, UT.
The Mokee Dugway is located on Utah Route 261 just north of Mexican Hat, UT. It was constructed in 1958 by Texas Zinc, a mining company, to transport uranium ore from the “Happy Jack” mine in Fry Canyon, UT. to the processing mill in Mexican Hat. The three miles of unpaved, but well graded, switchbacks descend 1100 feet from the top of Cedar Mesa (on which you are now standing). The State of Utah recommends that only vehicles less than 28 feet in length and 10,000 pounds in weight attempt to negotiate this steep (10% grade), narrow and winding road.
The term “mokee” is derived from the Spanish word moqui, which was a general term used by the 18th century Spanish explorers and settlers in this region to describe the Pueblo Indians they encountered and the vanished culture which had left behind the numerous ruins they discovered during their travels. This term continued to be used by the Anglo pioneers, who moved into southern Utah during the 1800’s, and their descendants.
Today the standard term used to describe these prehistoric Native Americans, who lived in this region more than 1000 years ago, is “ancestral Puebloans”. It is based on present day Puebloan tribes’ and archaeologists’ beliefs that these people were the ancestors of the today’s Hopi, Zuni, Acoma and Rio Grande region cultures. You may also see them commonly referred to as the “Anasazi”, a Navajo word meaning “enemy ancestors”.
Official Website of Arlington National Cemetary – http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/
Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a great grand-daughter of Martha Washington. The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. It is served by the Arlington Cemetery station on the Blue Line of the Washington Metro system.
In an area of 624 acres (2.53 km2), veterans and military casualties from each of the nation’s wars are interred in the cemetery, ranging from the American Civil War through to the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Pre-Civil War dead were reinterred after 1900.
