Monitor and Merrimac

Monitor and Merrimac would be a relatively easy ride (for Moab) if not for the long stretches of sand!  The ride up Mill Canyon is beautiful and the slickrock playgrounds at the base of Monitor and Merrimac are more then worth the time spent slogging through the sand!  Determination Towers are a worthy side trip, as is the Dinosaur bone foot path.

How to get there: 16.5 miles north of Moab.  Heading north on US 191 the turnoff is just past mile marker 141.  It is signed "Mill Canyon Road".

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Length: 13 miles, out and back

Trailhead Elevation: 4,500'

Highest Point: 5,150' Merrimac Butte

For a Topo, click here: MandM Topo.jpg (381609 bytes)

Click on the thumbnails below for a larger version:

M & M.jpg (73440 bytes)Monitor and Merrimac buttes (Monitor is the smaller of the two)

Determination Towers.jpg (93125 bytes)Robyne riding in front of the Determination Towers.

Ghost Riders.jpg (87052 bytes)Ghost Riders!

M & M Playground.jpg (82820 bytes)Slickrock playground, between the buttes.

Mill Canyon.jpg (91651 bytes)The road up Mill Canyon.

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