![]() For peak baggers, this area can be a nightmare and a serious challenge. These lands require the adventurer to be comfortable with cross-country treking, navigation and bushwhacking. ![]() In saying that, trails are also notably absent. Most of the roads are of oil and gas creation or on a minor front, from sheparding of livestock. The one feature most notably absent in the Book Cliffs are roads. This escarpment by the way, is the longest continous escarpment in the world. Looking north, the MASSIVE 1,000' escarpment (rising almost 2,000' at its peak helght) looks like horizontally-stacked tomes especially with the lighter colored capped bluffs of cretaceous era sandstone. And it's from this vantage that the area gets its name. Without doubt, the southern border is marked by I-70. This makes for a great drive for those more geologically-inclined as this stretch of pavement spears the Uinta Formation/Mancos Shale and the Mesa Verde Group. The northern boundary is generally accepted to be state highway 191/40 running from Duschene to Vernal to Dinosaur, Colorado. Some people might even extend that eastern boundary a bit further to include De Beque Canyon, but that's neither here or there. This small area is known as the, 'Little Book Cliffs' and includes the Western Slope's famous peak, Mt. It's generally accepted this area begins in the west on the Wasatch Plateau near the town of Price and comes to a gradual conclusion out east in the arid canyons just north of Grand Junction, Co. Geographically speaking, this area is roughly 240 miles long laterally (latitude). ![]() And with the exception of a few privately held parcels of land, almost 96% of the 2.4 million acres that encompasses the Book Cliffs falls under the jurisdiction of the BLM (Bureau of Reclemation). The Book Cliffs are an enormous area that spans two states: Utah and Colorado.
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