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A beautiful knob of red rock provides a backdrop for the wind-blown grasses in Sedona.

Smithsonian Butte curves slightly in the distance, heading toward its signature landscape.

A setting sun provides stunning scenery. The rugged coulee walls and countless lake of the Coulee Corridor have always inspired artists to take pen to papers, brush to canvas or to capture an image on film or digital media. Scenic overlooks abound along the byway giving the artist space to capture an image in his or her chosen medium.

Jensen's Butte is one of the most breathtaking features of Flaming Gorge.

Wedding Cake Butte is so called because it looks like a layered cake in earthtones.

The tip of this conical butte rises from the otherwise flat ridgeline in this photo from the Goblin Valley area.

Factory Butte is a prominent blue gray formation on the north side of S.R. 24 in Utah.

A road traverses the somber gray Christmas Valley landscape. Table Rock rises to a clear blue sky in the distance.

Looking across from the visitor center you can see a colorful view of the Castle at Capitol Reef.

The summer hours for the Fossil Butte Visitor Center are prominently displayed outside, next to a bike rack. Fossil Butte itself can be seen behind the roof of the Visitor Center.

These eastern Utah attractions, the Monitor and Merrimac Buttes, are 600 feet high monoliths which are so named because of their resemblance to the two Civil War ironclad ships. The Monitor, to the right, was the Union ship; the Merrimac was the Confederate ship. A glimpse of the North Fork and the South Fork of Seven-Mile Canyon can also be seen.

The world seems to fall away looking south on Kolob Canyons Road.