VISITOR CENTER AND THE SADDLEHORN, looking northwest across canyon from Otto’s Trail. Note thin-bedded bench of the Kayenta Formation separating cliffs of the Entrada Sandstone above the Wingate Sandstone below. The Saddlehorn is the remnant of the Entrada at the extreme right. (Fig. 50)
INDEPENDENCE MONUMENT, looking northeast from Independence View. Note updragged block of Wingate Sandstone at northwestern end of Redlands fault, just to the right of center. The other side of this block is shown in [figure 41]. Grand Mesa forms right skyline. (Fig. 51)
HIGHLAND VIEW
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The Summerville Formation is exposed on the right for about the next half a mile. In the next three-quarters of a mile to Highland View the roadcuts are in the sandstone ledges of the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation. Another half a mile through massive Salt Wash sandstones takes us to the second highest point on Rim Rock Drive—the divide between Monument and Ute Canyons, altitude 6,593 feet. From here we may look far to the south across Glade Park to high Piñon Mesa—the highest part of the Uncompahgre Plateau northwest of Unaweep Canyon, where the altitude is about 9,500 feet.
LIBERTY CAP TRAILHEAD
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