Overview
About Midpoint Overlook
Why stop
- Blue potash ponds make the canyon panorama stand out.
Heads up
- It takes a walk or ride on remote shared-use trails to reach.
Midpoint Overlook is a short spur off the Midpoint singletrack on the park's remote east rim, looking across blue potash ponds into canyon country. It's a worthwhile detour if you're already walking or riding this network; if you're choosing just one outing, save time for the park's other trails.
Parkwolf’s verdictWhy stop hereMap
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Dead Horse Point Tour Guide
Your drive to Midpoint Overlook, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Dead Horse Point State Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this area
Moenkopi Yurts“Moenkopi Yurts are coming up, five overnight rentals with a private spur onto the Intrepid bike trails. Staying here gives you time for the park's dark sky, too.”
Plays on the road 1.3 mi from Midpoint Overlook in the Parkwolf Dead Horse Point Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Intrepid Trailhead and Cable Line
- Visitor Center Rim Trails
- Visitor Center and Desert View
- The Dark Skin on the Cliffs
- 11 audio storiesacross Dead Horse Point’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Raven, Whiptail Lizard, Fence Lizard, and 1 more
- Works offlinemaps, 21 trails, 22 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Midpoint Overlook
Getting to the viewMidpoint is a 0.
Midpoint is a 0.2-mile connector between Upper Dark Horse and Cable Line, with a short spur to the overlook. This isn't a drive-up stop: the far-east mixed-use network's main trailhead is about a mile south of the entrance station. Hikers share the trails with bikes. Expect difficult routes with scattered obstacles and basic route-finding. Junction maps help, but cell service is spotty, so save a map and carry water. Keep dogs leashed on the mountain-biking trails.
Ponds against red rockThe bright pools are evaporation ponds where potash, a source of potassium, is recovered.
The bright pools are evaporation ponds where potash, a source of potassium, is recovered. Their industrial color sits below layered red-rock cliffs, with the Colorado River beyond. Keep the ponds and canyon in one photo; a little of the pale deadwood in the foreground gives the broad view some scale.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Dead Horse Point
33 sightingsRavenMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
16 sightingsWhiptail LizardMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
34 sightingsFence LizardMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
42 sightingsSide-blotched LizardMost seen around 9 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Dead Horse Point. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
