« 2017-05 Eastern Utah

May 3-4, 2017: Canyonlands National Park (Utah)

Most of these photos are from a loop hike up Wooden Shoe Canyon (formerly "Squaw Canyon") and down Big Springs Canyon.

May 3, 2017: Needles District

Indian Creek Canyon
SR-211
Peak 5890 & Six-Shooter Peaks
SR-211
rose heath (sand aster)
Wooden Shoe Canyon
hoary Townsend daisy
Wooden Shoe Canyon
yucca, budding
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Salt Flat Butte & La Sal Mountains
Wooden Shoe Canyon
spider milkweed, budding
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Ives' four-nerved daisy ("Perky Sue")
Wooden Shoe Canyon
desert paintbrush
Wooden Shoe Canyon
small lupine (rusty lupine)
Wooden Shoe Canyon
small-flower fishhook cactus
Wooden Shoe Canyon
bastard toadflax
Wooden Shoe Canyon
spreading fleabane
Wooden Shoe Canyon
pale evening-primrose
Wooden Shoe Canyon
mining bee on cut-leaf blanketflower
Wooden Shoe Canyon
sweet sand-verbena
Wooden Shoe Canyon
smooth horsetails
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Thompson's woolly milk-vetch
Wooden Shoe Canyon
cryptobiotic soil crust
Wooden Shoe Canyon
scarlet gilia
Wooden Shoe Canyon
sagebrush checkerspot butterfly
Wooden Shoe Canyon
crescent milk-vetch
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Wooden Shoe Creek
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Monument Valley milk-vetch
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Arachne checkerspot butterfly on townsendia
Wooden Shoe Canyon
plateau fence lizard
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Mojave king-cup cactus
Wooden Shoe Canyon
sandstone
Wooden Shoe Canyon
sagebrush lizard
Wooden Shoe Canyon
head of Wooden Shoe Canyon
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Ives' four-nerved daisy ("Perky Sue")
Wooden Shoe Canyon
double bladder-pod
Wooden Shoe Canyon
patch of soil on the sandstone
Wooden Shoe Canyon
slickrock
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Wooden Shoe Canyon mini-panorama
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Mojave king-cup cactus
Wooden Shoe Canyon
slickrock in Wooden Shoe Canyon
Wooden Shoe Canyon
ridge between canyons
Wooden Shoe Canyon
ridge between canyons
Wooden Shoe Canyon
Big Springs Canyon
Wooden Shoe Canyon
view to the north
Wooden Shoe Canyon
ridge between canyons
Wooden Shoe Canyon
yucca, budding
Big Springs Canyon
ridge between canyons
Big Springs Canyon
mat rock-spirea (rockmat)
Big Springs Canyon
Townsend daisy
Big Springs Canyon
firecracker penstemon
Big Springs Canyon
springs in Big Springs Canyon
Big Springs Canyon
trail through Big Springs Canyon
Big Springs Canyon
Needles north of Elephant Canyon
Big Springs Canyon
plains prickly-pear cactus
Big Springs Canyon
Big Springs Canyon & Junction Butte
Big Springs Canyon Overlook
sandstone pinnacle
Big Springs Canyon Overlook
Big Springs Canyon
Big Springs Canyon Overlook
North Six-Shooter Peak
SR-211
highway through canyonlands
SR-211
Bridger Jack Butte
SR-211
Newspaper Rock petroglyphs
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
desert paintbrush
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
flax-leaf plains-mustard
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
rough paintbrush
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
Thompson's woolly milk-vetch
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
firecracker penstemon
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
spiraling grass seed
Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument
La Sal Mountains
SR-211

May 4, 2017: Island in the Sky District

Preuss' milk-vetch
SR-313
cliff rose
Shafer Canyon Overlook
Utah frasera, budding
Shafer Canyon Overlook
South Fork Shafer Canyon
Shafer Canyon Overlook
South Fork Shafer Canyon
Shafer Canyon Overlook
Mesa Arch
Mesa Arch Trail
Washer Woman Arch
Mesa Arch Trail
Mesa Arch
Mesa Arch Trail
silvery lupine
Mesa Arch Trail
long-beaked twistflower
Mesa Arch Trail
yellow cryptantha
Mesa Arch Trail
larkspur
Mesa Arch Trail
Colorado River Canyon & Monument Basin
Grand View Point
freckled milk-vetch
Grand View Point Road
Buck Canyon & La Sal Mountains
Buck Canyon Overlook
Green River
Green River Overlook
Utah juniper berries
Visitor Center Overlook

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