Dead Horse Point

This is a State Park and it towers 2000 feet above the Colorado River, from which you can see sculptered pinnacles and buttes. According to legend, the point was once used as a corral for wild mustangs roaming the mesa. Cowboys rounded them up, herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck was only 30 yards wide, was then fenced off with branches and brush, creating a natural corral surrounded by precipitous cliffs. They chose the horses they wanted and left the rest corralled (??) where they died of thirst while looking down at the Colorado River 2000 feet below! We drove up the mountain side for about 25 miles to the top the plateau to this scenic lookout over the Colorado River.