Followers probably noted the winding road through the landscape as seen from Dead Horse Point in previously posted images. After shooting sunrise at Dead Horse Point, we traveled that road. This post contains a few of the photographys made along that road.
I think this road might be refered to by different names and I’ve mostly heard folks talk about this route as Shafer Trail, but my map shows this portion as Potash Road, to the best that I can decipher the map labels
This pond is a part of a potash production facility. Potash (potasium chloride) is disolved from underground rock with water pumped from the Colorado River and put into evaporation ponds. Blue dye is added to the water to increase solar energy absorption that heats the water speeding up the evaporation process. These ponds can be seen from the Dead Horse Point overlook and are in some of my photos made at that overlook.
I always stand in awe of the natural power of water, wind, weather and time to carve such amazing landscapes.
The road we traveled changes its name to Shafer Trail somewhere along the route, I think at the point where it enters Canyonland National Park. This photo was made at an overlook near where Shafer Trail exits onto a paved road near Canyonlands NP Visitors Center.
Late in the day, we returned to Dead Horse Point for sunset photography. Stay tuned for more,
Ken
That is some beautiful country you captured, Ken. I did not know you could drive right down to those potash ponds! Sure wish I was there.
Thanks, Becky. Yes and that road is fairly easy to drive. We even saw a Tesla sedan on that road, which seemed to be pushing luck a bit; but if driven with care and under favorable weather, any passenger car can probably navigate that road without incident.