| Huge red mesas towered on the horizon and a flat unforgiving landscape rolled out before them. |
| Today the local economy depends mostly on tourists who come to admire and frolic in the park's mesas, canyons, rivers, and waterfalls. |
| It consists of flat rocky plains, rocky mesas in the south, and sandy dunes in the north. |
| Our Southwest Grand Tour leads from Las Vegas into the canyons and mesas that form the heart of the Colorado Plateau. |
| The Virgin and Santa Clara rivers snake easily between flat-topped mesas, following paths of least resistance. |
| The trail sliced up through an erosional landscape of mesas and deep gorges where the bird life was stunning. |
