Canyonlands National Park, UT

Dates

Apr 26th - May 2nd 2009

Service Project

Invasive plant removal

Free Days

Spectacular day hiking & mountain biking

Accommodations

Tent camping in park campground

Trip Rating

Active : Sawing, lopping, tossing small trees

Leaders

Robin Bland
Carter Bland

Equipment

Canyonlands National Park covers a dramatic landscape of multicolored sandstone, slickrock, and river canyons. Within this magnificent park are two great wild rivers - the Colorado and the Green - and the gaping canyons they have carved. It also boasts a maze of serpentine canyons, extensive grasslands, woodlands of pinyon pine and juniper, a rainbow of colorful rocks, and more than 100 square miles of slickrock buttes and spires. Home to a rich diversity of wildlife including desert bighorn, mule deer, mountain lions, and golden eagles, Canyonlands is a remote and wild country.

Of the three Canyonlands districts, the Needles District is known for its clusters of rock pinnacles banded in orange and white, densely concentrated arches, rock spires, slot canyons, and Anazasi ruins. Our tentative work project is removing tamarisk in Salt Creek Canyon. We plan a free day to hike to legendary Chesler Park or the wonderful Lost Canyon Loop, or mountain-bike to the breathtaking overlook of the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers.