Chicken Corners

 

Chicken Corners

This was a new off-road to us, and one we didn’t pursue to the end – but, we will in the future!!  Let’s take a look at what we did see…

This road starts out hugging the cliff face, as do many off-roads around Moab!   As you can see from the top of the image, it was a sunny day.  The cliffs kept us nice and cool, though!!

Here are a couple of views from different sides of the road.  One is the cool shade of the cliff faces and the other is the floor of the canyon in the bright sunshine!  All of these scenes were new to us, since we’d never been on this road before.  Interestingly, we were accompanied on this road by lots and lots of ATVs and UTVs.  We realized that the reason there were so many of these vehicles on the road was because the road didn’t end in a National Park, where those vehicles were prohibited.

As we traveled down the road, we saw some petroglyphs at what was called The Birth Rock.  The petroglyphs depicted childbirth, especially the one on the far left.  This huge bolder is found just a few steps off the road.

As we continued on the road, you can see how it’s winding its way further into the canyon.  At this point, the road wasn’t too bad, although we did head down quite a steep slope to head further down toward the floor of the canyon.

These images truly illustrate the fact that sometimes rocks from the cliffs fall close to the road.  As you can see that one big boy is mighty close to the road!!!

When we reached a bit closer to the canyon floor, the scenery was really spectacular for another reason.  Wide open spaces, shrubby growth and the appearance of stripes on the rock formations that tell the tale of how old they really are.  I’m sure an archeologist could explain exactly what all the “stripes” mean, but that’s not me!!

As we progressed down the road, we saw yet more rock formations, including this one with the rock (boulder) that looks rather perilously perched!! 

If you look closely at this image, you’ll see a few camping folks!!  Throughout most of what we drove past, on the canyon floor, folks were boondocking (dry camping, with no hook-ups).  I thought this might be fun, except that the temps were predicted to be in the low 90s, and if you’re boondocking, that means no AC!!  Yikes!! At around this point, we decided to turn around and not pursue the rest of this road on this day.  The ATVs and UTVs were rolling down the road much faster than we felt comfortable doing, since this was our first time on the road.  So, we decided to turn around and save the rest of the road for our next trip in September!! 

Enjoy!!