PROFESSOR VALLEY - MARY JANE CANYON

Protected in 2007
 

Acreage: 1280

Grand County, UT

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Professor Valley Mary Jane Canyon is just northeast of Castle Valley, Utah, outside of Moab. It spans almost the entire Professor Valley from Adobe Mesa to Fisher Mesa. Consisting of beautiful landscape of red rock, sand, and desert vegetation.  This Preserve harbors sandy washes and deep slot canyons that funnel water into Professor Creek which crosses the property. The eroded waterways and windways provide the sensuous beauty of intricate formations, shifting light and shadow, patterns of water, animal tracks, pockets of dense vegetation, and the sounds of birds, water and wind that change with weather and seasons.