
Furniture Draw Canyon
A hike through a narrow canyon, short and easy, great for families with small kids
For independent travelers who want to dig deeper
There are multiple overlooks 1000 feet above the San Rafael River and canyons below you, each one gives you a different vista.
Getting to the Wedge Overlook
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Photo Notes
Early morning light and late afternoon light are best, arrive a couple of hours before sunset to avoid canyon walls below the rim in shadow
Overlook 1 ( 39.092979, -110.758803 )
This is the first overlook you will come to, the road coming in takes you right to this spot
Overlook 2 ( 39.091091, -110.785186 )
From overlook 1 head west (facing the canyon, west is to your right) along the canyon rim road. This is a slow rocky road of 2.2 miles one way, not suggested for cars
Overlook 3 ( 39.096005, -110.749306 ) The main overlook
From overlook 1, continue east (facing the canyon, east is to your left) along the road on the canyon rim, this will take you to the main overlook
Overlook 4 ( 39.103970, -110.740943 )
From the main overlook, continue following the canyon rim road, there are signs for “Good Water”, this will take you to the fourth overlook, you will need to park and walk 5-10 minutes out to the canyon rim.
A hike through a narrow canyon, short and easy, great for families with small kids
A short hike leads to a boulder on an overlook with hundreds of petroglyphs chipped into the desert varnish from the Fremont Culture dating back to at least 1300 AD
Once known as barrier canyon, it contains rock art that gave name to the barrier canyon style of artwork, contained in four galleries including the Great Ghost.
A beautiful slot canyon with two long, extremely narrow passages with walls up to 400 feet high.
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Three different sites in one compact area, see the controversial Black Dragon rock art, hike two adjacent canyons to see hidden arches in one and more petroglyphs in the other.
The park contains thousands of mushroom-shaped (goblins). You can walk amongst the hoo-doos, there are hiking trails and a cave on the back side of the valley called the Goblin’s Lair
A slot canyon with manageable drops, three sections of narrows, and walls that look like Swiss Cheese
A forty-mile long canyon drive with the highest concentration of rock art in the world, with an estimated 10,000 individual artworks from Archaic, Fremont, and Ute Indians
Rock art on 100 foot panels. See pictographs painted by the Barrier Canyon culture 2000 years ago and petroglyphs pecked into the rock by Fremont Indians 1000 years ago.
Called “Utah’s Little Grand Canyon”. There are multiple overlooks 1000 feet above the San Rafael River and canyons below you, each one gives you a different vista.
This dinosaur quarry contains more Jurassic dinosaur bones per cubic foot than have been reported anywhere else in the world.
Crystal Geyser is a CO2 geyser created accidentally in 1935 by an oil drilling rig.
See multiple snake pictographs and a line of dinosaur foot prints just steps from the parking lot
Significant because it contains some of the largest prehistoric painted figures in Utah. The largest image in its current condition is about 6 feet tall.
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On the south side of a locomotive-shaped rock formation, are amazing Barrier Canyon Style pictographs so pristine they look like they were painted yesterday
Visit a small but picturesque arch you can walk inside of or climb right on top of
Visit Joseph Swasey’s 1921 cabin. The Swasey brothers, Joe, Sid, Rod, and Charley were some of the earliest pioneers of the San Rafael Swell and many local landmarks bear their names.
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