![]() Goose
Neck Bend in Green River
       
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky " in Canyonlands Dead
Horse Point State Park in
Utah 
        The park plateau is
surrounded by sheer cliffs some two
thousand feet high is adjacent to Canyonlands National Park. with only a narrow neck of land connecting to the main plateau. Cowboys used to fence off this neck to corral wild horses. Legend has it that a group of horses was left fenced in and died of thirst.  | 
      
![]() Overlook
at Dead Horse Point on " Island
in the Sky " 
       | 
      
![]() Overlook
at Dead Horse Point on " Island
in the Sky " 
       | 
      
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![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River  
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River  
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
      from Dead Horse Point on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Colorado
River from Dead Horse
Point  
      on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Aerial
view of Dead Horse Point 
      on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
       | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
       | 
      
![]() Horseshoe
Bend in Colorado River 
       | 
      
![]() Dead
Horse Point 
      on " Island in the Sky "  | 
      
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