Show natural brict s national laal monument by zeke johnson custodian to locate the na ural bridges quickly just turn to the only place on the U S map where four states corner together utah co orado new mexico and arizona you can approach from the north and east over U S highway and from arizona from the opposite direction I 1 come to blanding utah anan andal r stay over night if not prepared 0 to o camp out you will find me in town or at the bridgest bridges but the stores and garages can direct you you can make the round trip from blanding in a day equipped to camp out you might enjoy staying several days blanding offers fair accommodations dat ions with unusual attractions beckoning in every direction prehistoric ruins cliffs and caves pah ute and navajo indians and places where you can buy their blankets baskets and other work on the south are the goose necks a scene unique and impressive and farther south monument valley the navajo reservation and hopi hop villages village it is fifty miles from blanding to the bridges over a road not too good not bad with surprise v scenes thrilling you from every vantage point one is the goblet of venice Na natures turis art specimen to make you wonder it stands thirteen feet high five tons of solid rock on a sixteen inch base farther on amid towering yellow pine you look down among the famous arches and towers of arch canyon at an elevation of more than feet in bears ear pass you stop for a scene never to be ba forgotten the great monument valley jagged reefs yawning gulches and mountains in four states as f far ar as the eye can reach the bridges are below you to the southwest in the solitudes of white canyon they date from primeval ages when meandering streams formed great horsa shoe loops and when the water had cut them deep into anio the earth so that the wear was no more on the upper walls but in the bottom only in time it cut through the narrow isthmus making a hole which the wear of ages made into a mighty arch the bridges are three miles apart at the corners of a triangular trail nine miles long you can drive near the Owan chomo B I 1 adge d e known as the edwin but it is customary to walk the nine miles as horses are somewhat expensive the edwin is the smallest and perhaps the oldest of the three nature has carved its horizontal column to a comparatively delicate size fashioning it into a rather perfect arch it is 35 feet wide on top and ten feet thick at the center with a span of feet it is feet above its old stream bed three miles down this arm s trong strong gulch at its junction with white canyon is the kachina bridge known as the caroline this a massive structure spanning 1 6 feet it has a width of 49 feet a thickness of feet in its smallest place and stands feet high bai the sipapu or augusta bridge is northeast white canyon it is awe inspiring excelling even the caroline in size with a span of feet extending across the canyon at the dizzy height of feet it is 40 feet wide and 65 feet thick in its smallest place in this vicinity are wonderful ancient dwellings some of them almost unreachable in the cliffs ponderous caves and deep yawning gulches with old dwellings and defenses of a people long since gone may be visited if horses are employed |