{"product_id":"map-of-canyonlands-national-park-utah-by-usgs-1982-moab-la-sal-mountains-colorado-river","title":"Map of Canyonlands National Park, Utah by USGS, 1982 – Moab, La Sal Mountains \u0026 Colorado River","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1983 from 1982 mapping, the United States Geological Survey’s “La Sal” presents southeastern Utah at the broad yet detailed 1:100,000 scale, centering on one of the American West’s most spectacular meetings of desert, river, and mountain. Canyonlands National Park dominates the composition, its maze of canyons and mesas set against the rising mass of the La Sal Mountains. The clean, authoritative USGS style gives the sheet both scientific precision and quiet visual elegance: contour lines articulate cliffs, basins, ridges, and high country, while greens and browns distinguish forested slopes from arid canyonlands. It is a map of extremes, where alpine elevations, slickrock plateaus, and deeply incised river corridors coexist within a remarkably compact geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe USGS was, by the late twentieth century, the definitive cartographic authority for American landforms, producing maps that supported exploration, infrastructure, conservation, mineral study, and land management. In “La Sal,” that institutional purpose is visible in every symbol and line: roads, trails, streams, elevations, forest boundaries, and public lands are rendered with clarity rather than ornament. Yet the result is far from merely utilitarian. The disciplined graphic language allows the drama of the terrain to emerge with particular force. This is the kind of map that reveals why topography mattered so deeply to surveyors, scientists, ranchers, hikers, park planners, and river runners alike. It records a landscape not as scenery alone, but as a complex physical system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCanyonlands National Park appears here as a realm shaped by water, time, and stone. The Colorado and Green Rivers, two of the defining waterways of the interior West, carve their way through the region, creating the canyons, benches, points, and inaccessible pockets for which the park is celebrated. Nearby Dead Horse Point State Park overlooks the same grand erosional architecture, while numerous dirt roads and hiking trails hint at the growing recreational interest that transformed southeastern Utah in the late twentieth century. In the early 1980s, tourism and conservation were increasingly intertwined, and this map captures a pivotal moment when remote desert terrain was becoming more widely navigated, studied, and protected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the east, the La Sal Mountains provide a striking counterpoint to the canyon country. Their high, contoured slopes rise abruptly from the desert, with the Manti-La Sal National Forest marked in green against surrounding browns and tans. This contrast is one of the map’s most compelling features: cool, forested mountain terrain stands beside arid valleys, exposed rock, and deeply eroded basins. Places such as Castle Valley, La Sal Junction, Muddy Creek, and the sculptural Fisher Towers enrich the sheet with geographic variety and local character. The map’s contouring makes these transitions especially legible, tracing the fall from peaks to valley floors and from uplands to river-carved depths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a historical document, “La Sal” offers a valuable snapshot of Canyonlands and the Moab region at a moment before the area’s modern explosion in global outdoor tourism. Moab appears within a wider network of roads, trails, rivers, and public lands, while unnamed peaks and valleys remind the viewer how much of this country remained defined more by landform than settlement. The map invites close reading: routes thread through desert corridors, waterways determine access, and relief governs nearly every human decision. For collectors of western Americana, national park history, or scientific cartography, it is a handsome and information-rich portrait of one of Utah’s most extraordinary landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCities, towns and places on this map\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanyonlands National Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLa Sal Mountains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoab\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuddy Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreen River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColorado River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDead Horse Point State Park\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLa Sal Junction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCastle Valley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eManti-La Sal National Forest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFisher Towers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeveral unnamed peaks and valleys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumerous dirt roads and hiking trails\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHistorical context \u0026amp; cartographic details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProduced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), this historical 1:100,000 topographical map shows Canyonlands National Park in Utah and the surrounding area.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe map is dated 1982 and carries a 1983 imprint.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe USGS is known for its extensive mapping and geological studies throughout the United States, playing a crucial role in land management and scientific research.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe map employs a clean layout typical of USGS topographical maps, with clearly delineated contour lines and symbols for geographic features.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColor is used to differentiate types of terrain, including greens and browns representing forested regions and desert terrain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe map reveals highly varied topography, with elevation changes marked by contour lines, including mountainous regions, valleys, and rivers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt serves as a reference for understanding geographic and ecological changes in the Canyonlands area since the 1980s, particularly in relation to conservation and tourism development.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLooking for a particular place?\u003c\/strong\u003e Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, \u003ca target=\"”_blank”\" href=\"\/it\/pages\/contact-us\"\u003eask our workshop to check before you order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDetailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). 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