This past Monday, Barbara, Ellie, and I traveled east across the Hurricane Fault to the Cedar Breaks National Monument. The Hurricane Fault is normal, strike-slip fault that separates the Basin and Range Geomorphic Provenance, to the west, from the Colorado Plateau, to the east. Cedar Breaks sits at the top of the Grand Staircase and is made up of the same rock formation that makes up Bryce Canyon. Cedar Breaks sits slightly higher and contains fewer hoodoo’s, the predominate rock structure seen in Bryce Canyon.
As soon as we arrived at Cedar Breaks we were questioning the wisdom of our visit. The visitors center and all of the scenic overlooks sit above 10,000 feet in elevation so it was difficult for us, at times, to breathe comfortably. But we made it, we just had to take slow, which is not a problem for Barbara and I these days.
This is a beautiful, but small park, with it’s colorful vistas and this time of year the wildflowers are in bloom, which adds to the natural beauty.
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