A Supreme View at Cedar Breaks
When we planned our trip out to Utah we figured that Saturday would be an all-driving day. Indeed, even with a 250 mile head start Friday night we drove 536 miles on Saturday. All on its own that would be a stout day of travel. But then I raised it to the epic level when I spotted that we could take a slight detour from the recommended route and visit Cedar Breaks National Monument.
Cedar Breaks has a few drive-to spots. The pictures I'm sharing in this blog are from Supreme Point, near the small visitors center. Okay, it's not precisely drive-to. There's about 100 m. of walking to the viewing platform.
Supreme Point sits at a lofty elevation of 10,350 ft. (3,155 m). From up here it feels like you're on top of the world. Looking across and down you can see an amphitheater of eroded sandstone rocks.
The sandstone comprises some of the intermediate layers of the Colorado Plateau. Where rain and snow runoff cut down through the top layer, water then cut quickly through the soft sandstone carving these deep canyons studded with strange, vertical outcroppings.
This is the same geology as you see on display all across what I dub ' red rocks country'. That includes Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, Arches, and Grand Canyon national parks plus many others parklands across a multistate region in the western United States.
While the views from Supreme Point are certainly supreme, this stop alone doesn't make Saturday's road trip epic. No, it became epic when we laced up our boots after this and went for a hike at sunset!
Keep reading in next blog....
Cedar Breaks has a few drive-to spots. The pictures I'm sharing in this blog are from Supreme Point, near the small visitors center. Okay, it's not precisely drive-to. There's about 100 m. of walking to the viewing platform.
Supreme Point sits at a lofty elevation of 10,350 ft. (3,155 m). From up here it feels like you're on top of the world. Looking across and down you can see an amphitheater of eroded sandstone rocks.
The sandstone comprises some of the intermediate layers of the Colorado Plateau. Where rain and snow runoff cut down through the top layer, water then cut quickly through the soft sandstone carving these deep canyons studded with strange, vertical outcroppings.
This is the same geology as you see on display all across what I dub ' red rocks country'. That includes Bryce, Zion, Canyonlands, Arches, and Grand Canyon national parks plus many others parklands across a multistate region in the western United States.
While the views from Supreme Point are certainly supreme, this stop alone doesn't make Saturday's road trip epic. No, it became epic when we laced up our boots after this and went for a hike at sunset!
Keep reading in next blog....