The View from Moki Dugway +edit

[AlanLichty]

This is a ridiculously wide panorama of the view from the top of a road called Moki Dugway in southern Utah. The road was originally built so trucks hauling uranium ore could get their loads down off of the mesa and is still maintained today. It is a rather convoluted roadway that is almost continuous switchbacks along a very steep grade but the view from the top is quite amazing. This image is a stitch of 8 portrait mode panels covering the area from the Valley of the Gods on the left to the Goosenecks of the San Juan on the right. Click through for a wider view of the scene.

C&C always welcome.

Edit: New version with some cleanup work for issues spotted by Jim Dockery.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great pano. I have been there a couple of times and camped once.

 

[JimFox]

Now that is a wide pano from a really cool location.

 

[Alisa]

WOW nice pano!

 

[John Holbrook]

Very nice pano Alan, my wife and I drove those switchbacks twice and loved the view each time.

 

[Jeffrey]

Great image, Alan. One of my favorite locations, and everything around it.

 

[Roger Bailey]

Beautiful Image, Alan!

 

[Jim Dockery]

Grand view. I'd clone out that black thing in the left corner sky and the circular flare in the middle.

 

[AlanLichty]

Great pano. I have been there a couple of times and camped once.

Thanks - I have not camped out there but would like to someday.

Now that is a wide pano from a really cool location.

Thanks!

WOW nice pano!

Thanks Alisa

Very nice pano Alan, my wife and I drove those switchbacks twice and loved the view each time.

Thanks - I love the switchbacks and the view but am willing to bet that the uranium ore truck drivers had different thoughts about it

Great image, Alan. One of my favorite locations, and everything around it.

Thanks Jeffrey - If I can ever drive that far again I want to shoot a similar pano from Muley Point.

Beautiful Image, Alan!

Thanks Roger.

Grand view. I'd clone out that black thing in the left corner sky and the circular flare in the middle.

Good eye - and at 100% in Photoshop I found a couple more smaller dust bunnies to clone out too. New version above. Thanks.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Nice work on the edit.

 

[Bart Carrig]

Love that area; it's a beautiful rendition. I loved telling people in the Northeast the name. The universal response was: "the whaaaaat?

bart

 

[Bart Carrig]

Oh, and thereafter, I named my last dog, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever "Moki" as she was the color of the scene and the stones.

bart