Natural Bridges National Monument from the Rim Wood Print

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Natural Bridges, Utah's first national monument, sits high on Cedar Mesa, 6,500 feet above sea level. Intermittent streams have cut two deep canyons and three massive bridges in sandstone formed from what was once the shore of an ancient sea. The bridges have been given Hopi names however it is not known what the ancient people called them. Sipapu is the largest and most spectacular of the three bridges in the Monument. It is considered middle aged, older than Kachina but younger than Owachomo. Its rounded opening and smooth sides are mute evidence of countless floods bearing scouring rocks and sand. Sipapu means "the place of emergence," an entryway by which the Hopi believe their ancestors came into this world. Geologists measure the age of the three bridges to be from 5,000 to 7,000 years old, formed from glacier melt after the last Ice Age.

I made this image from the rim of Cedar Mesa looking toward the mountain wilderness of Bear Ears National Monument, a monument whose...

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