About 30 miles east of Kanab, Utah, is the turn for Paria (spelled a bunch of different ways). There were two towns a few miles apart. One was a farming and mining community and the other was a movie set that say Clint's, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Sergeants Three, a rip-off of Gunga Din set in the west starring the "Rat Pack." The town has gone back to nature and the movie set was burned by arsonists. In the top photo you can see the road, the good part, the center photo the area of the movie set. The lower photo is a section of the multi-colored strata that you see in most of the canyon.
I had an email discussion with a friend who is very familiar with the parks in this area and we had very different opinions about Brice. He and his family love the park. I did not. I had a much different feeling about Paria Canyon, it is part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Why? Denise immediately said, "less people." Yeah, we were the only ones in Paria, whereas half of Europe was in Brice. This led me to another thought. Brice with its columns and other formations, the things my friend loved, fable like fairyland and lunar landscape, was just too much, geographically busy and unreal. The rough but, by comparison, plain land was comfortable. Perhaps the comfort was from recognizing the places where the west was won, on the movie and TV screen
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