Utah Landscapes
57 images Created 27 Mar 2010
Images of Utah from the natural world: National Parks, the environment, wilderness areas, wild places, mountains, deserts, canyons, and dunes.
Utah is home to some of the most iconic landscapes on Earth.
Much of the scenic southern and south eastern landscape (specifically the Colorado Plateau region) is sandstone, specifically Kayenta sandstone and Navajo sandstone. The Colorado River and its tributaries wind their way through the sandstone, creating some of the world's most striking and wild terrain (the area around the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers was the last to be mapped in the lower 48 United States). Wind and rain have also sculpted the soft sandstone over millions of years. Canyons, gullies, arches, pinnacles, buttes, bluffs, and mesas are the common sight throughout south-central and southeast Utah.
The best way to see these places is to jump in--into the canyons, onto the boulder fields, over the pools of red water. These images capture the essence of exploration in the deserts, dunes, and canyons of red rock country, Utah.
Utah is home to some of the most iconic landscapes on Earth.
Much of the scenic southern and south eastern landscape (specifically the Colorado Plateau region) is sandstone, specifically Kayenta sandstone and Navajo sandstone. The Colorado River and its tributaries wind their way through the sandstone, creating some of the world's most striking and wild terrain (the area around the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers was the last to be mapped in the lower 48 United States). Wind and rain have also sculpted the soft sandstone over millions of years. Canyons, gullies, arches, pinnacles, buttes, bluffs, and mesas are the common sight throughout south-central and southeast Utah.
The best way to see these places is to jump in--into the canyons, onto the boulder fields, over the pools of red water. These images capture the essence of exploration in the deserts, dunes, and canyons of red rock country, Utah.
