Off I drove to Utah with my goal of camping at The Wedge that night.  To get there I traveled south through the Salt Lake valley on Highway 15.  It took me a couple of hours driving to get through the urban setting of a many-lane freeway, lots of traffic, and general unpleasantness.  But I knew the results would be worth it and it was.  I had read a lot about The Wedge.  What I had read was that the canyon located anywhere other than Utah would probably be a national park, but in Utah with so many incredible sights it was just simply BLM land.  I turned east off Highway 10 onto the Green River Cutoff at Castle Dale.

Really? There is a big canyon ahead?

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