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Location: Dead Horse Point is located at the end of a mesa 2,000 feet above the Colorado River, on the edge of Canyonlands National Park

This was one of the truly “wow” moments of the holidays.
It’s a small park with a Visitor Centre and a single road to the overlook. We hadn’t realised this when we entered and asked for a map. In a real southern drawl the lady said “You don’t need no map. Visitor Centre three-quarters of a mile, overlook one and a half miles. Just go straight on. You don’t need no map here”.
Nothing can prepare you for the sheer enormity of the view. You can stroll along the Rim Walk, towering 2,000 feet directly above the Colorado River. The mesa that is Dead Horse Point provides breathtaking views of the canyon country of southeastern Utah and the pinnacles and buttes of Canyonlands National Park.

The Legend of Dead Horse Point goes that some cowboys corralled wild mustangs on the Point, then chose the horses they wanted. One time, for some unknown reason, horses were left corralled on the waterless point where they died of thirst within sight of the Colorado River unreachable below..

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