The Canyonlands National Park has three areas that you can drive to in order to see the canyons, rivers and formations of rocks, some small and some large. One area is the Island in the Sky, described in my earlier entry. Another area is called “The Needles” based on a length of cliff that has been eroded into many narrow pointed formations that look like needles. We visited this area one day and to get to it you drive through many very steep narrow canyons to get the large mesa that has river views.

Here are pictures we took of the mesas, buttes and rock formations that are visible from “The Needles”: