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Desolation Canyon
Follow John Wesley Powell's Journey Down the Green River
Canyon
on
Green River
in
Rocky Mountains
,
Colorado Plateau
near
Woodside
,
UT
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Desolation Canyon is a remote canyon on the Green River in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Utah. It was traversed by John Wesley Powell in 1869 as part of an expedition that was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. At its deepest point, a relief of over 5,000 feet exists from river level to the unseen rim of the Tavaputs plateau. It is said to be one of the most remote areas in the lower 48. Desolation Canyon was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. Over the last few thousand years, different groups of humans have occupied the area and left their traces behind. Fremont and Ute pictographs and petroglyphs are abundant in Desolation and its numerous tributary canyons, such as Nine Mile and Range Creek. Fremont granaries, as well as several abandoned homesteaders'…
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