Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

Categories: Nature | Travel

The curved shape of this attraction is fully consistent with its name. This bend of the Colorado River is located on the territory of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Due to its beauty, symmetry and sufficient proximity to the "civilization", this place annually attracts a huge number of tourists.

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Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

1. The Horseshoe is located off Route 89, about four kilometers south of the town of Page, Arizona. From the parking lot you need to walk only a kilometer to find yourself on the edge of the cliff.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

2. The horseshoe attracts with its beauty not only tourists and lovers of everything beautiful, unofficially this place is the "capital" of suicides in the state of Arizona.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

3. AirPano photo.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

4. Photo: Shyamal1980.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

5. Photo: Christian Mehlführer.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

6. Photo: kimjew.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

7. Photo: Dan Anderson.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

8. Photo: Nikhil.

Horseshoe Bend - a bend in the river in Colorado

9. Photo: DŨNG TRUNG VÕ.

Keywords: Mountains | Places of interest | Colorado | River

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