Dead Horse Point Poster Arizona Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Descending more than 800 feet from rim to river

who sought to lead tourists to the grandest views possible in the Harney Mountain Range

Bandelier National Monument was created to protect the dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people and many other archaeological sites

Said to have “eliminated for all time the terrors of the Donner grade

Dead Horse Point Poster Arizona Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestProduct Details 14" x 22" poster Interpretive Copy Grand vistas are not the only features of folklore by which Dead Horse Point came to be known. According to legend, cowboys rounded up wild mustangs and drove them onto the point surrounded by precipitous cliffs. They built a fence across the narrow neck, corralling them for later use. Many of the horses died of thirst within view of the Colorado River, giving rise to the scenic points modern name.