Natural Bridges National Park - Blanding, UT

From The Navajo National Monument to Natural Bridges is a pretty short ride, but if you do it right, it can be somewhat terrifying.  We took Utah Rte 261, which is not recommend for vehicles over 10,000 lbs, and/or RV's, trailers and such.  The sign should have read "not recommended for sane people". After that death defying act, we made it to our site (5).

A little focused!

A natural bridge is created by a river.

At the park there is a 9 mile scenic loop that goes to 3 Natural Bridges.   Since we had no internet, I bought a book on Geology.  I have been studying the rock formation at our next site, Arches National Monument.  I know Deb will be thrilled to hear me explain how the Arches were formed.  We were going to hike down to one of them in the morning but it started to rain!  So we packed up and headed on!  Although we are self contained, there is a limit.  We are on our third day of dry camping, and our second with no dump station or water. (We now know we can go three days without water, but it looks like we have several more nights with no water to go)

A side note, a National Monument can be created with a presidential decree, a National Park requires an act of Congress.  Who knew!