Black_Dog wrote:
Thanks for the beautiful photos. They bring back memories from 20-25 years ago when I explored the area on a series of trips by mountain bike...
...What continually baffles me is how the San Rafael Swell– that is so spectacularly beautiful – remains so overlooked and unknown. I hope someday to go back to the area with my Jeep.
As you know, it's fairly remote and a HUGE area. It's getting (has been) very popular with the ATV /UTV crowd so if you come during the relatively warmer (spring / fall) weather, which is more appropriate for them, you would be unpleasantly surprised at how busy it can be.
There's been lots of noise about much of that area may become part of a National Monument combined with the Moab area. We can only wait and see if an unannounced 'executive action' like Clinton did with Escalante NM comes about at the end of his term.