Imagination soars here.
And then vanished. Clues to their disappearance can be sought from their petroglyphs, etched on the red cliff walls. 150 years ago trappers roamed these same canyons looking for beaver, and adventurers like John Wesley Powell explored and charted the rivers and their myriad of side canyons. Here, real bandits like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid hid out in the bewildering maze of canyons, inspiring generations of Hollywood script writers. Here, the rivers are wilder than any script could portray.