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If you haven’t seen Goosenecks State Park in south eastern Utah live and in person, these photos – hell, no photos – will do the place justice. The “goosenecks” are the result of the San Juan River cutting a meandering chasm 1,000 feet deep. It was an overcast day, which led to imperfect photography, but it was still a hell of a sight.
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Looks similar to Dead Horse Point in Moab.
http://www.wasatchtours.net/national_parks/images/cl-deadhorsept-shale.jpg
Looks vaguely similar (they’re not that far apart… 80 miles or so), but Goosenecks is a tighter, more “extreme” version.
Goosenecks via satellite:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=37.170713,-109.923019&spn=0.143352,0.307961&t=h&z=12
Dead Horse Point via satellite:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=utah&sll=38.463267,-109.702606&sspn=0.281728,0.615921&ie=UTF8&ll=38.442565,-109.708443&spn=0.140904,0.307961&t=h&z=12
It’s all good 🙂 There’s a lot of interesting geography in Utah. If you look about halfway up the mountainside on the east side of I-15 anywhere from Salt Lake to past Brigham City you can see the old shoreline of Lake Bonneville.