Looking northeast at the Vermillion Cliffs, northern Arizona. It is one of the areas where zoo-raised California Condors have been released to establish colonies in the wild. On the other side of the cliffs from here, around that point at the right, is the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam (that creates Lake Powell) and a nearly no-town Navajo restaurant that serves good and plenty.

At our backs is the road that leads to a fork where you can choose between our right, south toward the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (which we did after taking this photo) and straight or northwest, toward Kanab, Utah. That's one of the well-known Western movie-making sites, and gateway to the new Grand Staircase/Escalante monument/park.