north of Moab, Utah, provides adventurous access to some interesting landforms developed at the Navajo Sandstone and Entrada Formation contact.
Determination Towers consists of the lower Dewey Bridge Member and the upper Slickrock Member of the Entrada Formation. Bike is standing on the upper surface of the Navajo Sandstone (Jurassic).
Merrimac and Monitor Buttes (left and right, respectively), named after the famed ironclad battleships of the Civil War, facing off as if in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862. (Click image to enlarge.)
Here’s the GPS track recorded on my Garmin Fenix 6X Pro watch. (Lap flags are two-mile markers.) I parked at the Mill Canyon dinosaur track site for a total riding distance of 18 miles with 1,700 feet elevation gain/loss.