The steep, narrow, twisty, gravel road that descends is called the Moki Dugway. It was constructed in 1958 by a mining company for transporting Uranium ore and drops 1100 feet in three miles.
If you're lucky, you won't meet anyone coming the other way. Just before the descent off Cedar Mesa down the Moki Dugway, there is a dirt road that runs several miles west to a view point called Muley Point.
The view here at Muley Point is to the south, overlooking the Goosenecks of the San Juan River with views to the spires of Monument Valley, on the Arizona-Utah border. It is just a short walk from the parking area to the edge, over a sandstone cap with a few scattered Pinon and Juniper trees. I felt a little nervous peering over the edge, a strong wind blowing on me.
There were wide cracks and large boulders that had tumbled off the rim. I felt like it would be my luck for one to break loose right when I was there and send me hurtling to the bottom.
The San Juan River is meandering here, flowing to the west, into Lake Powell behind the Glen Canyon Dam, where it joins the water of the Colorado River.
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