Monitor and Merrimac Area, Utah - April 29, 2004
Along the way into Canyonlands, the road passes two prominent buttes
named Monitor and Merrimac, named after the Civil War ironclads.
Along Utah 313.
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The Monitor and Merrimac stories.
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And there they are.
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The winding road to this view area.
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Monitor.
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Merrimac.
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Continuing on Utah 313. They don't really need the "Scenic Byway" shield to tell you that this is a scenic road.
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More distant view of the buttes.
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Some giant indentations worn into the sandstone. Every rock around here seems to want to be an arch some day.
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