Kaiparowits Plateau

The 1,600-square-mile Kaiparowits Plateau rises thousands of feet from Lake Powell to the south. In aerial imagery, it appears as a strip of slight green among the otherwise red rock landscape surrounding Lake Powell and the Colorado River in this region. The green is due to the pinyon-juniper woodland clinging to the high elevation of many plateau portions.
 
The Kaiparowits Plateau lies between the Grand Staircase region (to the west) and the Escalante Canyons region (to the northeast).

This area is one of Utah's more scientifically significant landscapes due to its sedimentary rock formations containing an unbroken record of fossils spanning 30 million years of the Late Cretaceous Era. Life forms of all kinds are recorded here, including dinosaurs. 

This area includes the Grosvenor Arch, the Cottonwood Canyon Narrows, Hackberry Canyon, the Cockscomb, and the old Paria townsite.