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This is a large boulder and those petroglyphs are huge! Big Boulder Panel by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

I think having only 4 campsites in upper Salt Creek keeps it less-peopled. We only passed a couple people on the trail over 4 days last month, which was was a much better experience than when we were in upper Grand Gulch a few weeks earlier and must have seen over 100 people.

I was there at the beginning of April. Todie was dry. We found one small nasty pool of water in Todie Canyon that I would have only used in an emergency, so we continued on and found a pool that was slightly better that the Pourover. Coyote Canyon was flowing and good. We didn't stop at...

Watched a nice sunrise in Dinosaurland yesterday... Ruple Point Sunrise by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

Feels like it's been forever since I last saw storm clouds... Evening Storm Cloud by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

I'm 6'5" and they were at least as tall as me.

Those atlatls on the right are over 6 feet tall! Huge Atlatl Panel by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr

April update. Total: 37 Nights Mar 31 - Apr 4 | Grand Gulch | 4 Apr 16-18 | Hans Flats & White Roost | 2 Apr 21-25 | Salt Creek Canyon | 4 Pour Off Camp #1 by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr Canyon Campsite #2 by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr Jailhouse Camp #3 by Randy Langstraat, on Flickr...

I've never considered The Maze a deep-wilderness, just more of a remote backcountry area that can be a bit difficult to get to, but maybe that's because it's always been a 4x4 destination for me...

That used to be a regulation on the permit for backcountry camping in The Maze, but I'm not sure if it's still on there? Edit- Yep, it's still on there:

Nemo's has been there for quite a while...I've eaten there a number of times over the years and have no complaints

Cass Mulford named Ferns Nipple for a local resident named Fern Graham, according to Charles Kelly. - From Steve Allen's Canyon Country Place Names book.

I agree. At least Canyonlands still doesn't allow SxS's and ATV's, no matter how hard Utah tries to get them in there!

Well, I wasn't writing a complete history of the park, just providing enough facts that I could quickly backup with a link to make my point...

Some further interesting road history from The Needles in this article: https://adventr.co/?smd_process_download=1&download_id=27706

4x4's were the historical way to access Canyonlands. Without them the Park might never have been preserved in the first place. Read up on Bates Wilson and how he brought people into Canyonlands via Jeep to persuade them to make it a National Park. https://www.nps.gov/people/bates-wilson.htm

That $6 goes to Rec.gov, not the Park. The Park charges nothing.

I just wish you could get the permits ahead of time without having to go to the Visitor Center while they are open. When I went last spring just as things were shutting down for COVID they put out a self-service permit box for a little while and I was able to get my own permit late at night...

That's a good question. It does not mention the $30 fee in the proposed change, so I think it's just $5/night per person, but that should definitely be clarified.

I'm curious why there are no fees for day-use permits on the White Rim and Elephant Hill and they aren't proposing any increases there?