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Show Cross June 19, 1998 page 15 him and lock him in his patrol car and flee. trunk After leaving Arches National Park, turn right on U.S. Highway 191 and head another seven miles north to the turn off for Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands National Park Island in the Sky District. Turn left onto State Highway 313. Stop 11: Potash Ponds Overlook At the Dead Horse Point Visitor Center you can see shallow ponds and rocky berms. The ponds were used in a scene of Space Hunter (1982) to give the impression of aimless wandering as the main characters head away from their space vehicle. Stop 12: Dead Horse Point At the end of the road is the site for a scene in starring Page 27 Widmark, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Movies From Currents Warlock(1958). This movie, Richard Fonda, Henry Malone and Dolores Michaels, is about the city of Warlock being terrorized by a group of cowboys. Fonda is hired as a marshal and Widmark is appointed deputy sheriff and must confront the cowboys and Fonda. The scene at Dead Horse is where a pond once was. It is now the parking area. This is where Fonda ,1 practices his target shooting. Other movies filmed here: Ten Who ;,?,,,. 5,:. Dared and Against a Crooked Sky. ;if , "Vi V a i - " " v.s-:, Shafer Trail Stop 13: Underneath Dead Horse Point is the scene where Thelma and Louise elude a dozen police cars in hot pursuit of them 1 and eventually drive off the cliff. This is DeaHTTorw PoTiTfatTPdrlcTooCouf Iseenwlth flieGreen RlMivTnjing ffuugKT'TKe lria rv the closing scene of the movie. gle- - shaped point at the upper left is the Shafer Trail, where Thelma and Louise ended it all. Leave Dead Horse Point State Park and return to State Highway 313. Turn Green River as it twists and winds movie, The Greatest Story Ever Told. left and continue to Canyonlands through the steep canyon walls. To your The Moab to Monument Valley Film National Park. face is the as the Green Commission left, River, library and museum is at 50 you 14: Green Overlook River rock where Max von Sydow delivered the East Center St. For more information, Stop This vantage point overlooks the Sermon on the Mount in the 1963 call (435) a m 5 . I aV'v.'V' - L- V vv . - vvSTVC 'll VY 259-638- 8. Nils Mi 4 and camping along the banks of the San Juan over the course of years. Walka hapFrom page 5 pily shares her intimate relationship with the river. Waterlines: Journeys on a Desert River Walkas book is also an easy way to Ann Weiler Walka swallow the history of the region. Her Red Lake Books $9.95, paperback poems are infused with legend and history of the people who settled and lived in Waterlines gives us a look at rivers from the area as well as the natural history of a different point of view. Ann Walka the flora and fauna that populate the river explores the San Juan River through the system. While Walka does manage to impart a eyes of a poet. This is a slower, gentler look at the river, not wrought with neargreat deal of solid information, it is all death experiences, waves or wild done in the soft light of poetry. Its clear The adventures flips. penned in her poet- to see why Ann Walkas book Waterlines is the small ones born from rowing a favorite read on the Colorado Plateau. ry are j Books It Ml 44 ! ilflt-M- i -- "Chi sgfc 32-fo- ot 100 Years Daily departures Old mid-Ma- y -- 10,000 Ft. thru mid-Octob- High -- 100 Mile Views For information He Creamery Players & reservations: er from Antonito, CO or Chama, NM 800-724-54- 28 under the tremendously talented direction of Mr. Cole Porter f 505-756-21- 51 Comedy, Frivolity, & Song Tickets also availabe through Dillard's Box Office in a by phone only: 800-654-95- relaxed cabaret atmosphere 45 (nol a dinner (healer) Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad P. 0. Box 789 Chama, N.M. ... Fine food and diMmth an 87520 creative menu ever-changi- ng Shows Restaurant hours 4pm - 10pm Tues.-Sa- t. Bar from 4pm - Midnight Doors open at 8pm Saturday shows 6pm & 9pm Tues.-Sa- t. 24 North Chestnut Street Cortez, CO (Half Block North of Citizen State Bank) Reservations i llfeSSEEHICSKtiK' exicp a & information (970) 565-191- 0 tJ K Ls W.- Li f if " " s' . V. Jl |
