San Rafael Swell Utah

The San Rafael Swell is a geographical feature in southeastern Utah on the Colorado Plateau. It is about 50 miles long and 30 miles wide. This 600,000 acre area along Interstate 70 has many unique and spectacular landforms. Some of the landforms are slot canyons, sandstone cliffs, mesas, buttes, springs and canyons. Most of the area is under the management of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Early Mormon settlers eked out an existence by ranching and taming the herds of wild horses that still roam the area. Some uranium mining was done in the 1950's. There are Native American rock art sites and the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry to explore as well. Slide show by John Wanserski.

For further information see: http://www.sanrafaelswell.org/

Bureau of Land Management: http://www.blm.gov/utah/price/SanRafaelDesert.htm

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[kubla777]

Been to some great places there...one of my Utah favorites..nice vid

[BrettCross]

Been in the north swell a couple of times. I'm sharing this video with some adverturous friends as an intro to our June trip. Video works for me.

[withers01]

cool i think i deuced rite there

[Batulao83]

Excellent presentation, we were there last week and saw it while visiting Goblin Valley. I did not know the San Rafael Swell is so important.

[SanRafaelSwell]

Beautiful! Too bad they are talking about reopening the uranium mines.