After spending the day with Bert and Pumpkin we headed further north to check into our home for the next 3 nights, and AirBNB in Kanab, UT. We detoured along the way to kill some time before our 4:00 check in, visiting the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. We expected this to be a statue or something similar. It was not. We followed our GPS and reached the entrance!
We figured the monument must be on up ahead so we began our drive down a dirt road, with red cliffs to our right and more traditional desert landscape on our right.
About 6 miles in, we reached a (closed) trailhead.
We took selfies in both directions .. desert view:
And red cliff view:
Check out this cell-phone screenshot showing where google maps shows the monument and where we quit driving 6 miles in (the blue "you are here" dot).
I'm reminded of the movie Tremors.
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