Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

It's a long road from eastern Utah back home.

I didn't follow that route. I aimed for a pretty spot in the middle of the Colorado Rockies, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. (Yet another place I never heard of until I started looking at driving routes.)

The canyon is sightworthy because it is one of the deepest and narrowest canyons in North America. The walls of the canyon are very hard pre-Cambrian rocks -- the same kind of stuff found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The canyon is over 2000 feet deep at some points.

I spent a cold and rainy night (the rain being something of a novelty after all those days in the desert) there before continuing on to Denver.