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Map of Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah. The park is shaded green and has stepped boundaries. A park road, shown as a red line, creates a circuit through the monument. Surrounding terrain is shown in tan.

Extended Description

Part of White Canyon curves across the top of the park and part of Armstrong Canyon curves across the bottom. Deer Canyon continues out of the park to the north and Tuwa Canyon does the same to the south.

State Route 95, also shown as a red line, enters the map at the middle of the left edge and crosses the westernmost edge of the park before dipping southeast across Red House Cliffs. The road shifts northeast to create a wide U-shape spanning the map and traveling across Harmony Flat and near Grand Gulch and Armstrong Canyon. The road branches near the middle of the right edge of the map, and a note there reads “Blanding to Visitor Center, 40 miles (64 km).” State Route 275 angles northwest from State Route 95 to pass two overlooks and head into the park.

Just over the park border, Bridge View Drive passes the Visitor Center, which is at an elevation of 6,505 feet (2,001 meters) and has a ranger station and a campground before starting its one-way loop. Bridge View Drive is 9 miles (14.5 kilometers), and travels counterclockwise in a curving, zigzagging path. The road passes Bridge view, which has parking, a picnic area, Sipapu Bridge, two more parking areas, Horse Collar Ruin Overlook, Kachina Bridge, another Bridge view with parking, and Owachomo Bridge. Eleven unnamed overlooks in addition to Horse Collar Ruin Overlook are spaced around the circuit. An unmaintained trail makes a loop that connects Sipapu Bridge, Kachina Bridge and a view of it with parking and restrooms, and Owachomo Bridge and its view, which has parking.

State Route 276, shown as a black line, angles from the lower left corner of the map to meet State Route 95. Text near the bottom edge reads, “Halls Crossing (Glen Canyon NRA) to Visitor Center, 59 miles (95 kilometers).” An unpaved road branches from near the intersection of State Routes 275 and 95 to pass Maverick Point and lead eventually “To Bears Ears.” A note here reads, “Unpaved road open summer only.”

Legend

A scale in the upper left corner measures distances of 0.5 and 1 kilometer and 0.5 and 1 mile. A legend in the upper right corner reads as follows:

Black semicircle on a red line for Overlook and

Black dashed line for Hiking trail.

A column of symbols represents Ranger station, Campground, Parking, and Restrooms.

Text below this reads, “Campers and picnickers must get drinking water at the visitor center. There is no drinking water elsewhere in the park.”