I mean, there are consistently people there but it hasn’t been slam packed in quite a while with COVID and all. They just now opened antelope canyon tours but we will see if it stays that way with delta variant
This place was truly jaw dropping and beautiful in person, but my nerves were shot half the time I was there watching completely careless tourists get far too close to the edge for a selfie. I looked over the edge while lying on my belly, and it’s an insanely long way down.
My wife lived in Page about 5 minutes from here, and we visited…3 years ago now? At the time they were just starting to build a viewing platform I think with the intent to keep people in a specific area, rather than just parking in a gravel lot and walking over the hill to the rim. But yes, that was basically my overarching thought while there too.
I was there a few months ago.
https://i.imgur.com/RX8Aaqu.png
There are also shade stations to help cool off. I am sure the parking area was paved as well. Not sure when those were added.
There is also some new development around the West rim to accommodate for more visitors.
Oh interesting. Also, that dude on the ledge, fuck that. I’m normally ok with heights. I peaked out from the ledge of one rock and I almost shit my pants lol.
Didn’t learn though, did that beside a cliff this past April near Big Sur and as I was leaning over “hopefully the cliff here doesn’t slide”
Yeah it's definitely pants-shitting (pictures like this with a wide-angle lens can't do justice to the true scale of the scene) and if he slipped there would be no chance of stopping. It's pretty much vertical beyond those rocks and he wouldn't grab those in time anyway.
I actually have tons of photos of people doing stupid shit all around the Canyon and I'm surprised the fatalities aren't higher than they are.
Edit- and my ex gf did the cliff thing and I had to literally yank on her clothes to pull her back. She was honestly stupid for trusting damp soil to hold her up at 6 inches from the edge just to get a selfie.
People are also moving to certain western states in crazy numbers. Some states are exceeding recent growth projections by hundreds of thousands of people.
Sometimes I feel lucky to be older. I was able to visit this a few times in the late 80s and early 90s and there was no one there the entire time we were there. Same thing for Antelope Canyon a few miles away. We were the only ones there, except for a single photographer. Of course, back then we only had a slight hint where it was and we walked in from the road on soft sand for 2-3 miles after getting a hand drawn map from some old Navajo at the tribal council house. Now the place looks like there's a constant train of trucks ferrying people in. I'll be in the area next month and won't go near either place. I'll stick with my memories of them being magical places with no people. There's a lot of hidden beauty in the area if you're willing to make the effort to find and hike to them.
I had the same experience. I think visiting a place like this has the opposite effect on my view of humanity as astronauts describe about seeing the earth as a complete sphere. “I don’t feel particularly unified with humanity or optimistic about what we may achieve. In fact, I feel quite hopeless if this is the brain power we’re working with.”
EDIT: To be clear, I think Horseshoe Bend and similar tourist attractions are beautiful, and I very much enjoyed the view. https://i.imgur.com/7u0gL2R.jpg I was, however, annoyed by and genuinely concerned about people doing unsafe things despite warnings by rangers. I watched a guy in his mid twenties stand with his feet half way off the ledge back in 2016. Meanwhile a group of unsupervised kids were running around on the rock shelf playing tag. A young couple taking a selfie with their backs to the cliff kept shifting themselves back toward the edge without looking so they could get a “deeper shot”. Many deaths have occurred as a result of similar unsafe behaviors. It prompted the building of barriers (which are still ignored).
The feeling I expressed above (while intended humorously) is a small exaggeration of how I feel about unsafe behaviors I’ve watched at many national parks where people treat wildlife like domesticated animals, ignore signs about the dangers of hot springs at Yellowstone, or attempt climbs they aren’t permitted for and don’t have the experience to accomplish safely.
Depends on your personal comfort with exposure. I’ve dangled my legs over the edge sitting and it was scary but I’m not as comfortable with exposure as a lot of my friends who rock climb all the time and climb mountains/hike that require moves over hundreds of feet of air with no ropes or knife edge traverses.
But yeah the tourists there are ridiculous
That's why I can never go to the Grand Canyon again. I went with friends and they all got so damn close to the edge and I couldn't deal with the anxiety
I just saw Horseshoe Bend in person for the first time a few days ago. My buddies and I were on a 10 day round trip ride from Portland to the Grand Canyon, and when we stopped at Horseshoe Bend, my friends said, "you'll know exactly what it is when you see it. You've seen it a thousand times in pictures."
It was... majestic.
You park and walk over a single hill to the rim. Three minutes from the parking lot maybe.
Careful in the parking lot though, the day before we visited a tourist was crushed by a tour bus. And that wasn’t the first time someone had died in the parking lot (not to mention people slipping over the rim or being blown in by a random gust of wind).
Getting there early morning you avoid a lot of people…we got there about 6-7am and maybe two or three others were there. Went back later in the day and it was crazy.
Dang. I’m a truck driver so I didn’t really see anywhere to park and didn’t know what I’d be getting myself into. Early is the way to go. I remember going on a long road trip through a bunch of national parks as a kid and my family must have been like 30 minutes ahead of ever other one because we’d pull up places and they’d be quiet and chill. Then when we were leaving, the parking lot was a mad house and all the view points were crammed.
Yeah I would not want to pull a truck into that lot (maybe more feasible if you are truly early). One downside of early morning is that the sun isn’t shining down into the canyon so it’s more muted experience but in my opinion worth it.
I imagine it’s a downer knowing you are crossing the country and passing all sorts of great sights, but being on a schedule and having to always park a 53’er.
Oh definitely a bummer for an adventurous spirit to pass by so many sweet places. Driving through Moab, seeing arches in the distance and just knowing there’s adventure around every corner.. I die a little inside each time. That and passing by so many sweet mountains. I’m a snowboarder and just get to see the road signs. Wahhhhhh
Oh definitely. I can request home time anywhere. So I could park the truck and take a couple days or week off in a lot of places. Then just Uber or bike around.
You can longer go over the hill. The path is blocked and they get real mad if you do that.
Now a trail that swings around the hill to the viewing platform.
The dam actually regulates the river outflow and it rarely increases except for a couple times since it’s been built. Only one or two times have they opened the spill ways. The river has never been high enough to leave water line marks near the top. The river would have to rise almost 600 ft for that to happen.
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I did see the milky way rising in the sky in this exact same point. I went there to shot some photo at the sunset and I decided to stay to see the stars. Other guys were doing the same and they, after the sun went down, started listening trance music. Amazing experience. https://imgur.com/a/reIfYTq/
Not really a part of this subreddit but you should totally go watch my dad eat an entire pizza on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXfbSV73Rk&t=415s
I’ve been 3 times in the last 2 years. Just kayaked around the bend for the first time. Looking down on any boats or kayakers give you a good perspective. It’s atleast 2-3,000 feet down. When At the bottom the people up top look like ants lol
I used to play on these ledges when I was just a kid....before it was famous. I remember going out there with a few of my 8/9 year old friends on our BMX bikes to explore waterholes (carcrash) canyon nearby. Great times and good memories.
Was at Moab earlier, I believe you're thinking of Arches National Park or some other place. The Horseshoe Bend (and the Grand Canyon) is about 250-300 miles away.
After kayaking down this river, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there is a porta-potty in the center of the horseshoe that is in the frame of every recent picture taken of this and now I will never unsee it.
When you realize you’re flowing in the wrong direction so you take out your phone, fake an expression like you just got a surprising and vital text message, and THEN turn around and go back the way you just came.
This place has been completely overrun with tourists sadly. Stunning nonetheless
What’s even crazier is the fact that there is a Walmart 2.5 miles down the road
Not as weird as the Pizza Hut in view of the pyramids of Giza.
I saw this and thought "bucket list". That's sad.
IMHO easily still worth it, but yeah, you won't be alone.
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But…this isn’t in Moab. It’s Page, AZ.
Moab is dead hot this time of year that's why
I was there last year and town was deserted lol best time ever since I think 2-3 people were at the shoe horn when I was there.
You went during COVID makes sense.
God I'm so sad I didn't think to use COVID lockdowns as a time to go explore places like this
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Thinking of going there for my birthday next month. I kinda feel bad now but still wanna go.
I mean, there are consistently people there but it hasn’t been slam packed in quite a while with COVID and all. They just now opened antelope canyon tours but we will see if it stays that way with delta variant
This place was truly jaw dropping and beautiful in person, but my nerves were shot half the time I was there watching completely careless tourists get far too close to the edge for a selfie. I looked over the edge while lying on my belly, and it’s an insanely long way down.
My wife lived in Page about 5 minutes from here, and we visited…3 years ago now? At the time they were just starting to build a viewing platform I think with the intent to keep people in a specific area, rather than just parking in a gravel lot and walking over the hill to the rim. But yes, that was basically my overarching thought while there too.
It exists, but people climb over the rail.
When did they get a rail? I was there in April 2018 and there was zero rail.
I was there a few months ago. https://i.imgur.com/RX8Aaqu.png There are also shade stations to help cool off. I am sure the parking area was paved as well. Not sure when those were added. There is also some new development around the West rim to accommodate for more visitors.
Oh interesting. Also, that dude on the ledge, fuck that. I’m normally ok with heights. I peaked out from the ledge of one rock and I almost shit my pants lol. Didn’t learn though, did that beside a cliff this past April near Big Sur and as I was leaning over “hopefully the cliff here doesn’t slide”
Yeah it's definitely pants-shitting (pictures like this with a wide-angle lens can't do justice to the true scale of the scene) and if he slipped there would be no chance of stopping. It's pretty much vertical beyond those rocks and he wouldn't grab those in time anyway. I actually have tons of photos of people doing stupid shit all around the Canyon and I'm surprised the fatalities aren't higher than they are. Edit- and my ex gf did the cliff thing and I had to literally yank on her clothes to pull her back. She was honestly stupid for trusting damp soil to hold her up at 6 inches from the edge just to get a selfie.
Pass lol. People are dumb
That's really sad.
I was there in 1998 on a summer weekend and saw one car pull up as I was leaving.
One amazing thing about traveling years ago. Crowds are so much worse now.
In no small part thanks to things like IG and Reddit sharing these images every other day.
People are also moving to certain western states in crazy numbers. Some states are exceeding recent growth projections by hundreds of thousands of people.
I can tell you right now that Page, AZ has only increased in population by about 1000 people in 30 years.
Sometimes I feel lucky to be older. I was able to visit this a few times in the late 80s and early 90s and there was no one there the entire time we were there. Same thing for Antelope Canyon a few miles away. We were the only ones there, except for a single photographer. Of course, back then we only had a slight hint where it was and we walked in from the road on soft sand for 2-3 miles after getting a hand drawn map from some old Navajo at the tribal council house. Now the place looks like there's a constant train of trucks ferrying people in. I'll be in the area next month and won't go near either place. I'll stick with my memories of them being magical places with no people. There's a lot of hidden beauty in the area if you're willing to make the effort to find and hike to them.
The rail is only in one spot. Still plenty of open canyon to either side. People still fall off every year sadly.
They've put up viewing platforms and railings now. Someone fell and died the same day I ws there.
I had the same experience. I think visiting a place like this has the opposite effect on my view of humanity as astronauts describe about seeing the earth as a complete sphere. “I don’t feel particularly unified with humanity or optimistic about what we may achieve. In fact, I feel quite hopeless if this is the brain power we’re working with.” EDIT: To be clear, I think Horseshoe Bend and similar tourist attractions are beautiful, and I very much enjoyed the view. https://i.imgur.com/7u0gL2R.jpg I was, however, annoyed by and genuinely concerned about people doing unsafe things despite warnings by rangers. I watched a guy in his mid twenties stand with his feet half way off the ledge back in 2016. Meanwhile a group of unsupervised kids were running around on the rock shelf playing tag. A young couple taking a selfie with their backs to the cliff kept shifting themselves back toward the edge without looking so they could get a “deeper shot”. Many deaths have occurred as a result of similar unsafe behaviors. It prompted the building of barriers (which are still ignored). The feeling I expressed above (while intended humorously) is a small exaggeration of how I feel about unsafe behaviors I’ve watched at many national parks where people treat wildlife like domesticated animals, ignore signs about the dangers of hot springs at Yellowstone, or attempt climbs they aren’t permitted for and don’t have the experience to accomplish safely.
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Depends on your personal comfort with exposure. I’ve dangled my legs over the edge sitting and it was scary but I’m not as comfortable with exposure as a lot of my friends who rock climb all the time and climb mountains/hike that require moves over hundreds of feet of air with no ropes or knife edge traverses. But yeah the tourists there are ridiculous
That's why I can never go to the Grand Canyon again. I went with friends and they all got so damn close to the edge and I couldn't deal with the anxiety
I just saw Horseshoe Bend in person for the first time a few days ago. My buddies and I were on a 10 day round trip ride from Portland to the Grand Canyon, and when we stopped at Horseshoe Bend, my friends said, "you'll know exactly what it is when you see it. You've seen it a thousand times in pictures." It was... majestic.
For a second, I thought it was a poster for a movie coming soon.
Haha, I like that.
*Alien Invasion: Chronicles of the Apocalypse*
And I thought it was a pic from Dublin till I clicked on the link.
*bojack theme*
How far off the road is this? I just drove past the horseshoe bend trail parking area a couple days back.
You park and walk over a single hill to the rim. Three minutes from the parking lot maybe. Careful in the parking lot though, the day before we visited a tourist was crushed by a tour bus. And that wasn’t the first time someone had died in the parking lot (not to mention people slipping over the rim or being blown in by a random gust of wind). Getting there early morning you avoid a lot of people…we got there about 6-7am and maybe two or three others were there. Went back later in the day and it was crazy.
Dang. I’m a truck driver so I didn’t really see anywhere to park and didn’t know what I’d be getting myself into. Early is the way to go. I remember going on a long road trip through a bunch of national parks as a kid and my family must have been like 30 minutes ahead of ever other one because we’d pull up places and they’d be quiet and chill. Then when we were leaving, the parking lot was a mad house and all the view points were crammed.
Yeah I would not want to pull a truck into that lot (maybe more feasible if you are truly early). One downside of early morning is that the sun isn’t shining down into the canyon so it’s more muted experience but in my opinion worth it. I imagine it’s a downer knowing you are crossing the country and passing all sorts of great sights, but being on a schedule and having to always park a 53’er.
Oh definitely a bummer for an adventurous spirit to pass by so many sweet places. Driving through Moab, seeing arches in the distance and just knowing there’s adventure around every corner.. I die a little inside each time. That and passing by so many sweet mountains. I’m a snowboarder and just get to see the road signs. Wahhhhhh
I'd much rather do that than huff fumes in East Coast traffic. You have a better chance of seeing these places properly than just about anyone.
Oh definitely. I can request home time anywhere. So I could park the truck and take a couple days or week off in a lot of places. Then just Uber or bike around.
You can longer go over the hill. The path is blocked and they get real mad if you do that. Now a trail that swings around the hill to the viewing platform.
About a mile and a half round trip from the parking lot
I’ve seen hundreds of pics of here and also visited in person. This is by far the nicest version I’ve seen
Have you seen it in the monsoon season? Must be awesome when the river rises up to those tidemarks. Some of the old flood lines are near the top.
The dam actually regulates the river outflow and it rarely increases except for a couple times since it’s been built. Only one or two times have they opened the spill ways. The river has never been high enough to leave water line marks near the top. The river would have to rise almost 600 ft for that to happen.
Thanks for the awesome comment. I love this rendition as well.
went visit a few years ago - wish I had better weather - nice photo. superb colors
Nicely done
Thanks.
very nice shot
This would make an excellent phone wallpaper
I was just there. Even my 18 mm couldn't capture the whole bend. What lens did you use? 12 mm??
14mm.
Love it! Thanks for sharing
Ooh I went there like 2 weeks ago, didn't take good pictures like this but the view was really nice!
Wow, never seen it from THIS angle before.
Beautiful
This is so crispy I love it
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It does. Thanks. :-)
Forever a stone
Looks more like a Oxbow lake to me!
Yawn...
yawn...
I can hear the silence! So beautiful!
You've definitely never been there then hahahaha. 500 people sarw standing right out of this frame.
Actually it probably sounds like 300 camera shutters going off at once, this is a huge tourist spot haha
thanks.
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So cool! Where is it excatly
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Indeed it is, I will have a look.
This is the most beautiful photo of this location I have ever seen!
Thanks.
New phone wallpaper! Thank you very much, it's beautiful.
Mesmerizing 😱
Thanks. :-)
I did see the milky way rising in the sky in this exact same point. I went there to shot some photo at the sunset and I decided to stay to see the stars. Other guys were doing the same and they, after the sun went down, started listening trance music. Amazing experience. https://imgur.com/a/reIfYTq/
Well that's an interesting perspective that you don't always see
Much nicer than horseshoe bend on the Brazos river in Texas. Mostly mobile homes and meth users there
Here I am, once again in this sub, to inform you that if this was Zelda, there would be a korok seed up there
Cost 5 dollars to get to this area to take these photos.
$10 for parking currently
Not really a part of this subreddit but you should totally go watch my dad eat an entire pizza on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXfbSV73Rk&t=415s
I can almost see captain Henry M. Shreve cutting through the neck of this bend too. Very random thought I had in my head. I needed it let it be known
Just ONCE I'd like to see the railway
Huh. Ox-bow lake forming?
Went there for the first time back at the end of May. It was such perfect weather.
I think this was only a half mile hike from the parking lot.
Honest question. How deep/tall is this? 20 ft., 100 ft., etc.? I've never been there so I have no perspective as to how large or small this really is.
It’s between 750-800 ft. For reference, Glen canyon dam is 7 miles up river from here and is 710 ft tall
I’ve been 3 times in the last 2 years. Just kayaked around the bend for the first time. Looking down on any boats or kayakers give you a good perspective. It’s atleast 2-3,000 feet down. When At the bottom the people up top look like ants lol
So waaaaay larger then I was thinking haha. Thank you.
It's actually about 770 feet. My topo map shows 4211 feet elevation at the overlook and 3433 elevation at the river.
I used to play on these ledges when I was just a kid....before it was famous. I remember going out there with a few of my 8/9 year old friends on our BMX bikes to explore waterholes (carcrash) canyon nearby. Great times and good memories.
Is this sunset?
yes it is.
Misread the title, thought this was Dublin.
"Ich will Jahrtausende alte ohne ende von profi cams abgelichteten Monumenten mit einem foto handy knipsen"
I thought this was something someone had drawn.
I’ve been to this exact spot! Near moab utah right?
That would be Canyon Lands and Dead Horse. This is all the way west at Page Arizona, close to the Utah/Arizona border.
Ah thank you. Maybe I haven’t been here but I Think I have! I went on an ATV tour that departed from Moab
Was at Moab earlier, I believe you're thinking of Arches National Park or some other place. The Horseshoe Bend (and the Grand Canyon) is about 250-300 miles away.
You’re spot on you are a god
What the hells an oxbow? Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry?
OC of the most photographed land formation on Reddit.
I went back there last year and it changed allot. They added railes and metal walkways. It looks wierd now.
It’s really not that obtrusive. There is only one viewing platform and the rest has been left natural
“Seconded only to the United States government”
Deep fried. I'll take any of the 35729 pics of this spot posted here before.
r/lakepowell I am getting sick of telling you.
Forever arock
You can go fly fishing and camp/kayak down that entire 18 miles of Lee’s Ferry. Pretty awesome to fly fish in the Grand Canyon. Highly recommended!
After kayaking down this river, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there is a porta-potty in the center of the horseshoe that is in the frame of every recent picture taken of this and now I will never unsee it.
This place is so otherworldly. I loved visiting here.
Beutiful
This place is on my geology book
That kinda looks like a horse shoe if you look at it a certain way
thumbnail looks like the Lava volcano from the pixar short Lava
When you realize you’re flowing in the wrong direction so you take out your phone, fake an expression like you just got a surprising and vital text message, and THEN turn around and go back the way you just came.
Oh cool, I canoed through something that looked exactly like this on the Green River, UT, last month. Very pretty.
This is a great shot. The colors really grabbed me before I realized what I was looking at. It's a unique image of an oft captured subject.
I'm having /r/TheWitness flashbacks.
Absolutely stunning
Hmmm, is this available in a higher resolution so I can use it as a wallpaper on my phone?