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Rainbow Bridge, Utah

Friday, 8th April 2005 by

The world’s largest natural bridge. The surrounding landscape is very surreal, it all looks like it is sculpted out of play dough.

rainbow bridge

Thanks Jeff Reynolds.

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12 Responses to 'Rainbow Bridge, Utah'

  1. 1. the RAD blog says: April 8th, 2005 at 3:07 pm

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  2. 2. Linkblog says: April 8th, 2005 at 3:45 pm

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  3. 3. random duck says: April 8th, 2005 at 5:26 pm

    Actually, Rainbow Bridge is in Utah - just barely, but in Utah, not Arizona.

    Nice blog, tho!

  4. 4. olly says: April 8th, 2005 at 5:31 pm

    Thanks random duck! Can you tell we aren’t American? :)

  5. 5. Jeff Doolittle dot com says: April 8th, 2005 at 6:35 pm

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  6. 6. Jen says: April 8th, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    I gotta say, so far, Utah (and surrounding area) seems to have the best visuals. Panning around after looking at the bridge, I found Placemark: this area / Google Earth.. very beautiful. Look at the swirl in the water.

  7. 7. F.R. says: April 8th, 2005 at 11:16 pm

    This bridge looks like E.T.’s finger,doesn’t it?

  8. 8. Gus says: April 9th, 2005 at 3:29 am

    look northeast of the natural bridge, there’s something man made in there… what the hell?

  9. 9. Gus says: April 9th, 2005 at 5:43 am

    sorry, I meant northwest. It’s been a long day.

  10. 10. Peter says: April 10th, 2005 at 5:57 am

    It’s still a heck of a long way to K-Mart once you get to the other side. Still, what an amazing shot!

    Thanks for sharing it!

    Peter

    http://thePeterFiles.blogspot.com

  11. 11. Lorie says: April 10th, 2005 at 6:02 am

    That manmade structure is a boat dock managed by the National Park Service. Rainbow Bridge is a Navajo holy site, but thousands of visitors visit via boat from Glen Canyon Recreational area and Lake Powell. There are signs that ask you to not go under the bridge, but most visitors do. I, for one, could not do that. It would be like peeing in a church. Bad mojo. Some of the team members on the American Frontiers Public Lands journey (south team) decided to go under the bridge, but I elected to stay on the park side.

  12. 12. Dale says: April 23rd, 2005 at 4:47 pm

    I have seen this landmark before, but never from this view! great shot!

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