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title: "The Needles, and nobody else"
date: "2025-09-12"
location: "Canyonlands National Park"
country: "United States"
lat: 38.1653
lng: -109.7859
photos: 2
weather: true
weatherData: { tempMin: 17.6, tempMax: 25.9, code: 51, precipitation: 0.8, windMax: 31.9, source: "open-meteo", recordedAt: "2026-09-06T08:32:19.276Z" }
---

An hour and a half off the highway to reach the quiet half of Canyonlands. We saw four other cars all day and two of them were rangers.

Stars afterwards of the kind that make the sky look crowded rather than empty.