Dead Horse Point Mesa Scenic Byway
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• Dead Horse Point Scenic Byway Overview
  

  An intriguing name for an intriguing place: Dead Horse Point is so named because in the mid-1800s, cowboys installed wild mustangs here, on the natural corral, a small plateau 2,000 feet above the Colorado River. Unwanted culls or "broomtails" were left behind on the plateau...

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Places

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