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Naio
Explorer II
Nov 14, 2015

Ginormous canyon complex north of Green River, UT?

Does it have a name? And why had I never heard of it, even when I was camping around Green River? I just found it on google maps, last winter, looking at the terrain view. It is huge! Why isn'...
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Naio
Explorer II
Nov 14, 2015
Google maps shows roads along many of the canyon floors, and some of the ridgelines.

Do y'all think Desolation Canyon refers to the whole area, or just the Green River part? The Green goes roughly north-south, and crosses an even bigger (wider and longer) east-west canyon, which seems to be mainly the Range and Florence creeks.


Googling Desolation Canyon seems to pretty much just bring up rafting info, except for agesilaus' excellent 4x4 find.

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