Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Study Area Imagine an untouched land with seven major slickrock canyons draining into the Colorado River.
Natural arches frame the sky, the second largest concentration in the country.
On a late summer afternoon, the thunderclouds roll in. As the lightning crackles, a deluge fuels spectacular waterfalls tumbling down the canyon walls. When the storms clear, bald eagles soar within the walls of Horsethief Canyon and somewhere above Bighorn sheep clamber over the rocks. Located on the Colorado-Utah border, you can enter this world on a hike out of the Colorado National Monument or on a relaxed float down the Colorado River, which runs along the northern boundary. Floating the River Black Ridge Canyons open their mysteries most spectacularly from the Colorado River.