Coal Canyon Bench 2.0

This is a great Jeep trail close to Green River.  Head up Coal Canyon to Coal Canyon Bench.  Travel along the bench then drop back down through Horse Canyon.

The first part of the trail is through a bunch of center-pivot irrigation alfalfa fields.  Quite a contrast to the color of the desert.

There is a GPS - gpx track at the bottom of the page.
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Brilliant green
Your first stop after leaving the agricultural area is to see some well-preserved petroglyphs.

Travel along the bench and you will see an area of interesting hoodoos.
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Petroglyphs
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Hoodoos
Continue along the bench for great views of mountains above.  The colors in this part of Utah are not as vivid as some other areas, but the formations are very nice.

Many coal seams are visible all along the route.  
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Views above the bench
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Coal seams
The trail cuts across the head of Stub Canyon and offers a nice view down onto the flats.
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Head of Stub Canyon
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Stub Canyon
Horse Canyon is the final leg of the trip.  Very narrow through the middle part.  We could not believe this had just been graded by 2 County road graders.

​A small cabin where the canyon widens out.
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Narrow middle part of Horse Canyon
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Cabin in lower Horse Canyon
Updated 2014.
Updated 2015.
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