Camping and Travel Daily Image No. 16
Ace motorhome, Class A RV, on interstate 70 in Utah, photographed from San Rafael Swell View Area, I70 rest area in Utah 35 miles west of Green River, October 2, 2015. (38°51’49.0″N 110°48’51.0″W)
The San Rafael Swell is a large geologic feature located in south-central Utah, United States, about 16 miles (26 km) west of Green River. The San Rafael Swell, measuring approximately 75 by 40 miles (121 by 64 km), consists of a giant dome-shaped anticline of sandstone, shale, and limestone that was pushed up during the Paleocene Laramide Orogeny 60–40 million years ago. Since that time, infrequent but powerful flash floods have eroded the sedimentary rocks into numerous valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas, buttes, and badlands.
