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Echo Cliffs

01e Stormy sky over Echo Cliffs SR89 S AZ (1024x531)

When leaving Page, Arizona on SR89 south the sculpted red and tan sandstone of Echo Cliffs surrounds you.

02e Stormy sky over Echo Cliffs SR89 S AZ (1024x768)

Then the road drops down to the Marble Plateau and turns a sharp north becoming SR89A.

03e Echo Cliffs SR89 S AZ (1024x504)

Where you drive below Echo Cliffs.

04e Sun on Echo Cliffs under stormy sky SR89A N AZ (1024x606)

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MWT – Road trip photos Highway 89 Arizona

Fall Aspen and Douglas Fir in Kaibab National Forest
I left the North Rim at 3:15pm. Along the meadows Aspen showed their finest gold to orange colors, sometimes like a fence or mixed into the towering evergreens.

Vermilion Cliffs
As I droped about 3000 feet off the Kaibab Plateau to House Rock Valley the temperature increased from fall back to summer.

Vermilion Cliffs
Back in the 1870s John Wesley Powell named this magnificent 3000 foot escarpment appropriately.

After crossing the Colorado River the highway turns south and parallels Echo Cliffs. The moon was up as the sun went down…

…enhancing the colors of the Painted Desert.

And the sunset was spectacular.

Sunset over Humphreys Peak
Unfortunately I didn’t make it to Flagstaff until after dark.

That is the moon
All photos were taken while I was driving. Some come out better than others. The road is smooth yet full of dips.

Made it to the KOA RV Park where I’ve camped several times before. Always get good WIFI. Tomorrow I drive the rest of the way to Yarnell.

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My World Tuesday – Echo Cliffs Arizona

Sunrise at Bright Angel Point – North Rim Grand Canyon National Park
When I finished last year’s summer season as a Park Ranger at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park (click here for that story) I drove past Echo Cliffs on Highway 89 south back to Yarnell for this last winter. Well, guess what?

Painted Desert & Echo Cliffs
After yesterday’s post about the Painted Desert I also drove past Echo Cliffs just the opposite direction. Funny how life comes full circle sometimes.

Echo Cliffs lies on top of the Painted Desert as deposits of sand from the Early and Middle Jurassic about 175 to 200 million years ago.

This reddish-orange, cliff-forming sandstone is oftentimes veneered with black or gunmetal-blue desert varnish formed in part by the metabolic process of bacteria on the rock.

I continued on to Page, Arizona where I finally saw the Colorado River and Glen Canyon Dam, which I’ll post about tomorrow.


This series I’ve written over the winter for My World Tuesday is over. I’ve brought you to where I’ve spent the winter blogging, Yarnell, Arizona. To find out where I’m heading for the 2009 summer season, just keep checkin in. I promise to reveal where with a week.
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