From Kodachrome Basin, we traveled on All-American Highway 12 East to Escalante State Park for another quiet day. It was a quick hop and a jump. After two relaxing days, we were in slow motion and wanted to finish the books we had started! Besides, there was an Artist's Fair in the nearby town of Escalante! Shopportunity!
From Escalante SP this morning (Saturday), we continued East on Highway 12, after a quick stop at the Escalante farmer's market. The scenery along the drive was spectacular! Our little "point-n-shoot" camera doesn't do it justice! There weren't a lot of pull-outs along the narrow roadway to take advantage of the photo-ops that were here and gone in seconds. Hopefully, you can get a feel for the magnificent panoramas from the photos included in this post.
Along the way, we stopped in at the Anasazi State Park in Boulder and toured the museum and ruins. It is thought that the Coombs Site was an active village from A.D. 1050 to 1200. The people irrigated and farmed the land, hunted wild game and harvested native plants. The early people who inhabited this site constructed pit houses below ground level. Later, Kayenta-style masonry replaced the pit houses. By the way, an interesting "tid-bit" we learned today ....... It turns out the "Anasazi" means "ancestral enemies" in the Navajo language, which is NOT taken kindly by the various tribes local to the region - Hopi, Pueblan, Kayenta as well as other tribes. When the Navajos migrated in from Northern areas, there evidently was a bit of friction between clans and tribes!
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| Escalante State Park |
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| Landscape stretches for miles! |
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| Viewpoint along Highway 12. Looks like rock is flowing downward! |
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| Kayenta Pueblan Homes built with mud mortar and chinking stones. |
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| Looks like the top rock is twisted like a rope! |
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| Valley Vista! |
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| Creation in Progress! |
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